poetry

Journalist and poet Marsha Barber says poetry can make a difference

By ILINA GHOSH Staff Reporter The poet W. H. Auden famously said, “poetry changes nothing.” Ryerson University journalism professor Marsha Barber disagrees. Barber, a former CBC senior producer and, more recently, an award-winning poet, says that through poetry – much like journalism – it is possible to affect social and political change. “Good poetry connects deeply with people in the…