Over Fiorito’s career, column writing and poetry often fed into each other, he told the Star in an interview. Knowing this is necessary, given his new book, City Poems, is somewhat of a distillation of his newspaper years into honed verse (Fiorito retired about a year-and-a-half ago from the Star after about 14 years). Former Star columnist Joe Fiorito often observed Toronto through the lens of the most vulnerable people, unafraid to bash the systemic complications that placed them there in the first place. How did your column writing fuel your poetry? The book itself took a year-and-a-half to write and a life time to learn how to write about it.

Source: thestar April 20, 2018 18:56 UTC