By Torontoist

Torontoist is celebrating National Poetry Month with a series of short essays, prose pieces, stories, and poems on the theme of optimism. What’s optimism got to do with Poetry Month you ask? Well, as project curator and poet Jacob McArthur Mooney wrote here last week, the contributors to The Optimisms Project are all poets, all under the age of 30, and each has been wracking his or her brain trying to answer a single question: ”What makes you feel optimistic about the future of poetry in Canada?”
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