I like the idea of poets reaching out and sharing their perspective with a wider audience, but I wonder if Cristin’s work was really was as introspective as this news blurb sounds? The Philadelphia Weekly reports:

“I don’t think a news break alert can flash on our televisions without people thinking it’ll be somehow linked to a terrorist attack,” says 28-year-old author, screenwriter and slam poet Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz, who’s appeared on the HBO series Def Poetry Jam. Aptowicz will present her updated speech “Words That Comfort” at the Kelly Writers House on the fifth anniversary of the attacks. Originally presented at a symposium on terrorism at Hastings College in Nebraska in fall 2005, the speech explores the effects of 9/11 on a community of poets from the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

Well, news flashes linked to terrorists or the weather… Here are some other poems of 9/11.