Poems and projects and themes, oh my

Stuart Ross, in his back-page column for the current issue of  subTerrain magazine (the piece is not yet online) considers why so much of work of Canada's "emerging" poets and other writers seem to be themed "projects". (He speaks as someone who was this year a Canada Council juror.) "Shouldn't writers who are learning the trade be trying out everything they can, creating a tangle of eclectic