This list contains contributions posted in early February to the League of Canadian Poets listserv, and was compiled with help from Joe Blades and Mary-Angela Nangini.
All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
A Defence of Slang by G.K. Chesterton. Archdeacon Hare and Walter Landor by Walter Landor. As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. The closest thing to poetry is a loaf of bread on a ceramic dish, or a piece of wood lovingly carved, even if by clumsy hands.