NEA's Verse - Case Scenario: The Power of One Poem; To Stop Bad Art, Just Stop The Funding From: The Washington Post | Date: March 1, 1992| Author: Thomas Fleming | Copyright 1992 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

Poetry is dangerous. Poets have been known to seduce women, destroy characters and undermine regimes, all with the power of their words.

When his prospective father-in-law called off the marriage, the Greek poet Archilochus so satirized the family that the daughters committed suicide. Irish poets were said to go about the countryside threatening to lampoon any rich man who did not offer hospitality. The so-called revolution of the 1960s owed much more to the lyrics of Bob Dylan, Ph...

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