There will be poetry

Whether it's a painter making a cartoon of the Statue of Liberty from globs of oil or poets reinterpreting BP’s language through subversive verse, artist of all sorts are voicing concern and expressing outrage over the gulf oil spill. When writers Amy King and Heidi Lynn Staples wanted to raise awareness about the environmental catastrophe, they chose to protest through poetry and began Poets for Living Waters, a site dedicated to publishing poems about the spill. Their motivation, according to this article at the Associated Press, was to bring the disaster’s "overwhelming enormity to a more manageable individual scale":

Dozens of poets have submitted works to the site. In "Chandeleur Sound," an elegy to a wildlife refuge fouled by the spill, poet Marthe Reed — director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette — turns the dry corporate jargon of BP's own regulatory documents against the company.

"Residual marsh sequesters toxicity, pompom booms mimicking widgeon-grass. A regulatory regime cut-to-fit Big Oil, profit, thirst of our idealized machines. Fill in the blank. `No clear strategic objectives'tern estuary, soak, seat`linked to statutory requirements.' What is required?"