Warren Kinthompson

"Warren Kinthompson" is a poetry hoax perpetrated through the online encyclopedia, Wikipedia.

Life
Wikipedia has no article on Kinthompson, but information on him has been inserted into other articles throughout the wiki. According to Wikipedia:


 * Kinthompson was a "travelling poet" who was living in New Brunswick in 1954, when he and Fred Cogswell of the University of New Brunswick (Ufounded Fiddlehead Poetry Books (now Goose Lane Editions
 * Kinthompson also co-founded Fiddlehead Poetry Books, with Cogswell, in 1958.
 * Kinthompson was writer-in-residence at the University of New Brunswick (UNB) for some time in the 1960s. He was writer-in-residence by 1966, when he formed a "close friendship" with English poet John Thompson, then teaching at Mount Allison University.
 * Kinthompson served as writer-in-residence at UNB until 1968, when he was succeeded by his "close friend," Alden Nowlan. "Alden Nowlan," Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation. Web, Dec. 6, 2012.
 * Kinthompson was also a "close friend" of Prince Edward Island poet Milton Acorn, and was quoted by the Globe and Mail, at the time of Acorn's death in 1986, as saying that Acorn had "lost the will to live."