I saw the "Poetry Route" posters for the first time yesterday, on the way home from school. The city of Edmonton thought that publishing poetry on the inside walls of buses was a creative idea. Perhaps it is. Regardless, I am not only intellectually, but personally offended by the posters. It is despicable that drivel like that is taking up recognition, funding, and publishing space that the work of talented poets is denied. If this is the sort of arena I have to look forward to, I'm not sure I want to be a more-published writer.