Poets Against War continues the tradition of socially engaged poetry by creating venues for poetry as a voice against war, tyranny and oppression.

This is an archive of the Poems of the Day selected from February through July, 2003.

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Thursday,July 31, 2003

Alisa Orellana, “Vigil I Tried”

Clarissa Pinkola Estes, “THE ROSE WARRIOR (the poem)”

Jeffrey Salane, “Whatever Exists”

Pam Uschuk, “REMEMBERING THE TET OFFENSIVE AS I WATCH TROOPS SHIP OUT FOR A U.S. ATTACK ON IRAQ”

Karina Byrne Ekduende, “OF HUMANITY: WAR MASK”

4 Wednesday, July 30, 2003

Gerald Nicosia, “What It’s Like to Live in a Time of Madness”

Elisa Trampler, “PROTEST”

Deborah DeNicola, “Dilating Skies”

Dale Jacobson, “George W. Bush Reads the Future”

Jeanne Connerney, “Birth in Blood”

4 Tuesday, July 29, 2003

Hedwig Gorski, “Empathy, Please: Note From an Enemy”

Nora Gaines, “Nation”

Jim Futrell, “High Blood”

Norain Siddiqui, “I Will Not”

Robin Good, “blood simple” 

4 Monday, July 28, 2003

Daniel Martin, “Repeat Story”

Kim Tapie, “Selective unmasking”

Blaise Allen, “Topical Storm”

Joe Giambrone, “MUTED”

Joan Goodman, untitled

4 Sunday, July 27, 2003

Nora Swan Croll, “After Birth”

Verona Danessi, “It Might Come”

Joell Hallowell, “Seated on a Yellow Bus”

Lisa Bourbeau, “This Day”

Joe Crow, “The Hopi Way”

4 Saturday, July 26, 2003

Neil English, “Sweet Dreams”

Susan Blackwell Ramsey, “The Sow Bear’s Sonnet”

Antoinette Nora Claypool, “Trail to Blue Lake”

Chris Boardman, “To my father, who worked on the B-52”

Robin Beach, “Blue Mosque Along the Silk Road”

4 Friday, July 25, 2003

Bonnie Hill, “Baghdad Mother”

Terry Hertzler, “The Pink Pickup”

Noah Eli Gordon, “a black mirror for the capital”

Sue Standing, “WAITING FOR WAR”

Thomas Fielding, “The Trees in Palestine”

4 Thursday, July 24, 2003

Jack Granath, “Children’s Story”

Gene Grabiner, “RECENT HISTORY”

Janet Dollacker, “THE PRION”

Helen Ding, “The Soldiers I’ve Seen”

Melissa Good, “Cultivate Peace”

4 Wednesday, July 23, 2003

Jeff Oaks, “From the Cathedral of Learning, University of Pittsburgh”

David Perkins, “A victory of the human heart” (Statement of Conscience)

Kesaya E. Noda, “Make Us See”

Alec Emerson, “World Trade Center”

Aaaah Gijs Eagle, “The Sound”

4 Tuesday, July 22, 2003

alan botsford saitoh, “a mamaist gratitude”

John T. Carter, “Not a poet”

Guy Dan Schuyler, “War For Peace?”

jason blacker, “iron will”

Deborah Bancroft, “Two Tuesdays”

4 Monday, July 21, 2003

Bob Bowen & Amy Lemmon, “Les Oiseaux Tristes”

Khosi Xaba, “The war America wants”

Brian Langan, “The Bed”

Nancy Owen Nelson, Ph.D., “An Ordinary Woman”

Doug Thiele, “My Vietnam War Story”

4 Sunday, July 20, 2003

Mac Cohen, “Let Me Have This Moment”

Paula Meehan, “Fist”

Ahkos Ahkos, “their hands, bodies”

Mark Lamoureux, “BETELGEUSE”

Dave Foxall, “Walking down the street…”

4 Saturday, July 19, 2003

Kathryn Kysar, “After Vietnam”

Warren Brown, “Second Poem for War”

nancy judson, “The Boys Down the Street”

Nick Koutsias, “Open Letter”

George H. Madison, Jr., “Same Ole Crooked Song”

4 Friday, July 18, 2003

Ryan Eckes, “not as people”

Jacob Jaffe, “Rest in Peace”

Ruth Yarrow, “Vigil”

Luis L. Tijerina, “Defenders of Iraq”

Susan M. Tiberghien, “Grandchildren”

4 Thursday, July 17, 2003

Harold Confer, “Public School Pathos”

Tim Frayser, “The Dangerous”

June Stepansky, “PEACE TALKS”

Heidi Peppermint, “Cassie Tells It Like It Is”

4 Wednesday, July 16, 2003

Bridget Balthrop Morton, “Moreno Street”

Harriet Feinberg, “TIMOR MORTIS CONTURBAT ME”

Harley Sachs, “Bayonet Practice”

Steve Aeilts, “GW’s first one…”

J.Oliver Ortega, “All The Stars Will Fade Out”

4 Tuesday, July 15, 2003

Theo Dorgan, “OF CERTAIN ARCHITECTS, TECHNICIANS AND BUTCHERS”

Mary Francillon, “Lesson”

Dana Pattillo, “Vietnam War Memorial, Washington, October 11, 2002”

Susan Ryan, “For Peace”

Jacey Adams, “Sight”

4 Monday, July 14, 2003

Edmundo de la Garza, "Fallow shores adrift above the horizon"

June Chase, “The Tribe”

Rozz Leight, “Post/9/11/02 Two”

George Pepper-Pepper, "Number Ten"

4 Sunday, July 13, 2003

Nathaniel Delafield, “Origami Aftermath”  

Louise Beitser, “Another Letter”

George Otto, “Material Breach”

Benjamin Lanier-Nabors, “Table Places”

sarah rose clune, “grey sabbath”

4 Saturday, July 12, 2003

Suzan Bazett, “From The Castle Of Our Bodies”

Eddie Delbridge, “Some Other Man’s Son”

Holly Iglesias, “Says Her Peace”

Paul Bloom, “recollections and visions at a dinner out with friends”

June Nirschl, “Let Peace Come”

4 Friday, July 11, 2003

Shara Faskowitz, “Glossolalia”

Jonathan Burleson, “Peace”

June BlueSpruce, “Tree Path”

Ricardo Caballero, “No estaba…”

Phoebe Grigg, “Favorite Episode” and “To George W”

4 Thursday, July 10, 2003

nick crow, “War”

Nick Moudry, “then the bombs”

Nick Smith, “Random thoughts, not a poem.”

Nick Owen, “Friendly fire”

Nick Maroudas, “The Three B’s”

4 Wednesday, July 9, 2003

Bin Ramke, “Been There Done That (Desert Warfare)”

Mary Cousins, “If It Feels Good Do It”

Daniel Machlin, “from Flower Poems: Jedwabne”

Luis Cabalquinto, “The Day After”

Anne Marie Macari, Statement of Conscience

4 Tuesday, July 8, 2003

Jesse Sampson, (Untitled)

Zec Vigil, “The Uncivilized Civilization”

Jeremy von Halle, “Trying to finish what your daddy could not do”

4 Monday, July 7, 2003

Daisy Fried, “American Brass”

Joanne Townsend, (untitled)

Oliver Gassner, “usa”   

Benjamin Maradani, “A RAY OF HOPE IN THE DARKNESS”

4 Sunday, July 6, 2003

Dennis Crews, “Night Trains”

adam walsh, “irony”

Marlyce Pedersen, “A MOTHER’S HEART (for AHB)”

Dale Benjamin Drakeford, “Peace Wanted Quiet” 

Lacey Dalby, “Drops”

4 Saturday, July 5, 2003

Thomas Coy, “dontkillourboys”

Mark Hoffmann, ”freedom fighter?”

Tegan Blackwood, “Enduring Freedom”

Dana Garrett, “Stewed Tomatoes”

4 Friday, July 4, 2003

Eliot Katz, “To the Northern Winds July 4, 2002”

Susan Elizabeth Abrams, “July”

Gibson Fay-LeBlanc, “Independence Day”

Jonas John, “Independence Day”

Norma Kassirer, “a flagging fourth”

Stephen Pradarelli, “Freedom From Fear”

Jennie Orvine, “Make Love Not War [Remembering Desert Storm – July 4]”

4 Thursday, July 3, 2003

lucy gillespie, “This is What Democracy Looks Like” (statement)

Adam Fisher, “The Build-Up”

Mary-Marcia Casoly, “War against War”

John Bloomberg-Rissman, “These Fragments…”

Rosemary Cappello, “SCULPTURE BY JACQUES LIPSCHITZ”

4 Wednesday, July 2, 2003

Rosemary Catacalos, “Morning Geography”

Lillian Kennedy, “The Wind Howls”

Johanna Bochner, “The First Order”

Johan van Eeden, “Bush speaks”

4 Tuesday, July 1, 2003

Ricardo Basoalto, “Instead of Prayer”

Carolyn Bateman, “A Brief History of Anger”  

Jaryl Altomare,, “Chocolate Covered Frogs”

4 Monday, June 30, 2003

John Paul Adams, “Dying as light”

James Bolger, “She wore War on her face”

Meena Alexander, “Red Scarf”

Janet Abramson, “A Lost Friend: What War Had Done to Arabs and Jews”

Rebecca Beck, “In Line”

4 Sunday, June 29, 2003

Sloan Nota, “February 10, 2003: Waiting”

Christiane Tsouo-Harvey, (untitled)

Tia Ballantine, “RAMALLAH”

Christian Kiefer, “Sun Dogs”

Jenna Blondel, “Baghdad”

4 Saturday, June 28, 2003

Stephen Kuusisto, “Wartime Radio”

Katherine Fitzgerald, “And This Man is Our President”

A.D. Carrico, “A Romantic Dance in Arms”

Alisa E. Brown, “Those Are Fighting Birds”

Larry Linder, “Lessons Never Learned”

4 Friday, June 27, 2003

Joe Haldeman, “Forever Peace”

Charles Elliott, “The Dish”

Marilar Aleixandre, “Resistance to ravage”

gerald bass, “vietnam”

Shaula Evans, “Separating Church and State”

4 Thursday, June 26, 2003

Salvatore Galioto, “Infantry”  

Jim Moreno, “el pastel de nueces (the fruit cake)”

L. Amelio, “Dial 9-1-1. Again”

Maria Filoumeni Delliou, “TRAGEDY”

Charlie Newman, "testament redux"

4 Wednesday, June 25, 2003

Kathi Appelt, “Vendetta”

Erica Finken, “The Cost of Confidence”

J.W. Scribner, “?”

alejandro saravia, “Winter in Chechnya”

Cathy Lyndes, “Sunday Headlines”

4 Tuesday, June 24, 2003

Eva Yaa Asantewaa, “tenebrae”

Bob Bengtsson, “mistakes”

Madeline Angela Ridley, “They will build you a wall”

Sandy Crimmins, “Grey Ash Girls” 

Zachary Scribe, “The Eisenhower Doctrine”

4 Monday, June 23, 2003

Catherine Sasanov, “Immolations”  

Mary Susannah Robbins, “Love in Time of War”

Heather Watts, “LET’S NOT GOOF WITH WAR”

David Biviano, “Bury me in El Salvador”

Al Viebranz, “The Messenger”

4 Sunday, June 22, 2003

alejandro anónimo, “desperation”

Beau Golwitzer, “untitled poem against war and for love”

Martin Small, “Santayana Said” and “Legacy”

Eric Viau, “My first confirmed kill”

Muhammad Farooq Siddiqui, “Iraq & Oil”

4 Friday, June 20, 2003

4 Wednesday, June 18, 2003

4 Tuesday, June 17, 2003

Peter Whalen, “Bell Toll”

Karren Alenier, “The War Against Death”

Shelley Chernin, “Holes”

Maia Larios, “Cries of War”

Ana Ramirez Barker, “Dignity’

4 Sunday, June 15, 2003

Henry Berne, “Even At The End Of The War”

Jim Clark, “Journal: Song of the Survivor”

Jeanne Larsen, “SNOW IN A SEASON OF WAR-TALK AND DROUGHT”

Donna Allard, “MAPLE LEAF”

John Otterness, “We Wait”

4 Friday, June 13, 2003

Melissa Morphew, “Why: Letter from the War” and “Fear”

Ira Sukrungruang, “To Be Naked and Protesting”

Jean Anaporte-Easton, “April Rising (In Spite of Us)”

Gabriela De Golia, “WAR”

Marilyn Krysl, “Goya’s FIGHT WITH CUDGELS”

4 Wednesday, June 11, 2003

Ricardo Basoalto, “Instead of Prayer”

Yon Walls, “ASAMI’S TEARS”

Karen Lewis, “Substitute Teacher”

Michael Hogan, “With The Mine Removal Team”

Nancy Berg Coleman, “TEAROURWRITSTS, said the little girl, TEAROUREYES”

4 Tuesday, June 10, 2003

Eero Ruuttila,”National Geographic: Old News”

Roger Dunsmore, “A True War Story”          

Bonnie Fisher, “Lilies”

L. Amelio, “Dial 9-1-1. Again”

Dominique Raeuber, “War”

4 Sunday, June 8, 2003

Gina Ulysse, “Excerpt from ‘Concepts of Home’”

Donna O’Connell, “Anesthesia”

Michael Rowley, “We are Already at War, Six Odes”

Alison Kent, “Birds in War”

Roy M. Moore, “America in 2003”

4 Saturday, June 7, 2003

Dorothy Regal, “Waiting”

Janine Pommy Vega, “In the Age of Grasshoppers”

Subuhi Jiwani, “To: NYPD and vibrant anti-war protestors”

Janet Egan, “Guns and Butter”

Ian Bell, “Think Of The Main Game”

4 Thursday, June 5, 2003

Padmore Agbemabiese, “THIS DREAM"
 

ray black, “playing”

Karla Clark, “Protest”

Donald Morrill, “Might”

Katie Lennon, “Covering Guernica”

4 Wednesday, June 4, 2003

4 Tuesday, June 3, 2003

4 Friday, May 30, 2003

Rei Berroa, "Three Variations on the Theme of Peace and the Dove (In Spanish & English)”

Ace Boggess, “Pretend It Doesn’t Matter For Tonight”

Chris Tanner, “Elephants”

Cassandra Saulter, “DAY OF BIRTH”

Brian Morrissey, “As We Lay Down to Sleep”

4 Thursday, May 29, 2003

Olivia Seally, “Save Us”

Nick Keenan, “I Seem to Have Forgotten America”

James O’Connell, “The Eleventh of September Two Thousand and One”

L. Nguyen, "A Message to Mr. Bush"

Murat Sayim, “I cannot express”

4 Wednesday, May 28, 2003

Andrew Haley, “inattention”

Rebecca Austin, “Patriotism and cornflakes”

Manuel Moreno, “Stand Down”

miriam obrey, “Words”

peter thom, “Portents”

4 Tuesday, May 27, 2003

Gianna Russo, “Roses Named Fourth of July”

Steve Runge, “Seventh Month”

Sean David Ross, “AT THE PROTEST A 3 YEAR OLD BOY HOLDS A SIGN SAYING”

Rebecca Clayton, “The Words”

Jeff McAlister, Statement of Conscience

4 Monday, May 26, 2003

Trish Crapo, “Memorial”

M.S. Rooney, “Memorial”

Jeanne Hamilton, “Memorial Day”

Annaliese Jakimides, “Reunion at the Vietnam Women's Memorial Dedication”

Rod Jellema, “Proposing Four Lines for a National War Memorial”

Sandie Bernstein, “Memorial Day”

Robert Godwin, “Another War Memorial?”

Mary Rohrer-Dann, “Memorial Day”

Dan Wilcox, “PEACE MARCHERS AT THE VIETNAM MEMORIAL”

Hermon Card, “Memorials”

David Joseph, “At the Vietnam Memorial”

Bill Knott, “MEMORIAL GARDEN, NATIONAL MILITARY CEMETERY, ARLINGTON, USA”

William Marr, “Memorial Day”

Chip Dameron, “Memorial Day”

Nancy Abrams, “Memorial Day”

Dana Patillo, "Vietnam War Memorial, Washington, October 11, 2002”

Mary Flodin, “Viet Nam War Memorial”

Robin Lindley, “Before the Newest War Dead Memorial"

Megan Thomas, “Overheard at the Vietnam War Memorial:”

Edgar Sense, “Memorial”

4 Sunday, May 25, 2003

Marjatta Kaarakka, "After a document"

Mary Saunders, "Hypothesis"

Klaus Wachowski, "caesar"

Rebecca Saalbach, "Sketch at the End of the Earth"

Mary Ellen Sanger, "Gracias Guernica"

4 Saturday, May 24, 2003

John Kinsella, "Moment in the Sun"

Helen Losse, "Songs of War"

Nick Forrest, "give us peace, he shouted"

Marilyn Probe, "Children Know the Hearts of Trees"

Rodney Houghton, "Duct Tape"

4 Friday, May 23, 2003

Llyn Clague, “To Future Generations”

Keith Wilkinson, “The future meaning of”

Cynthia Allison, “Future Lament”

Ralph Black, “Future Tense”

Peggy Davis, “Future Perfect Tense”

Dale Jacobson, “George W. Bush Reads the Future”

Annabel Uhrich, “The Past of our Future”

4 Thursday, May 22, 2003

Gary Williams, "Average"

Dorothy Friedman-August, "As If"

Lisa Cohen, "Words and Things"

Joe Bacal, "RIPLEY"

Luis Cabalquinto, "THE DAY AFTER"

4 Wednesday, May 21,2003

Sean Hoban, "justice"

Elliott Nonas, Statement of Conscience and "Justice Lay Dying"

James Brunger, "Defined Justice"

Elio Emiliano Ligi, "That There Is No Justice"

Alice Ruvane-Barr, "Truth and Justice"

4Tuesday, May 20, 2003

Chad Faries, "Rash"

Carol Bjorlie, "SEPTEMBER 17, 1862 ANTIETAM"

Peri Shumard-Craig, "Amman-Megeddo"

clara sala, "Spirit in the Body"

randall jacobs, "my soft response to the wars"

4Monday, May 19, 2003

Peter Sears, “COLLATERAL DAMAGE”

Earl Anderson, “Collateral Damage”

Anya Peterson Royce, “Collateral damage--a photograph”

Sarah Rossiter, “Collateral Damage”

Amy Crane Johnson, “Collateral Damage--For Matt and Adam”

Andre Namaste, “Collateral Damage”

4 Sunday, May 18, 2003

Kyle Drewes, "Soft Decisions"

Caitlyn Mathews, "Forgive me"

Courtney Merritt, "Another Place"

Edward Horn, "Primal Justice"

maarten de lee, "Black future candy"

Allison Bierschield, "Justice for All"

4Saturday, May 17, 2003

Ina Cumpiano, "Guernica at the Millenium"

Kate Maloy, "Guernica: The Art of War"

Sandra McRae, "guernica unveiled"

Jayce Renner, "Guernica Cloaked"

Matt Donovan,  "Guernica's First Draft"  

4 Wednesday, May 14, 2003

Lucia Cordell Getsi, “Living in Trees”

Ian McCausland, “these buildings are alive”

Bradley David Neily, “A Warning of Something Coming Alive”

Dawn Potter, “Buried Alive with George W. Bush”

Gail Wronsky, “O Alive Who Are Dead”

4 Tuesday, May 13, 2003

Kay Berg, “Humanities 101”

Elizabeth Krajeck, “Vacuuming Between Wars”

Jo-Ann Ledger, “Provisions”

David La Bounty, “Space Available”

F. J. Bergmann, “To the Victims of Oppression and Terrorism”

4 Monday, May 12, 2003

Robert M. Chute, “IN LIEU OF FLOWERS”

Consuelo Underwood, “Indigo: code for low-flying missile”

Marilyn Donnelly, “War Haiku”

Laurie W. Stoelting, “Untitled”

Erin O’Keeffe, “What’s Left Behind”

4 Sunday, May 11, 2003

Bart Piela, “Crimson Cries”

Jose Horacio de Almeida  Nascimento Costa, “THE PROPHET PHOO AND THE SALAMANDER”

Jeffrey Buehler, “The Sad and Aching Heart”

Lesego Semenya, “Help needed”

Nenad Glisic, “BAGDADSKA ELEGIJA/BAGHDADIAN ELEGY”

4 Saturday, May 10, 2003

Giulio Stocchi, "For future memory"

Anthony Ginn, "Ode to the Stealth Bomber"

Alison Croggon, "Untitled"

Zerrin Bakoglu, "angels of babies"

Hans-Reichard Jessen, "New World Order?"

Bob Hicks, "Starve War"

Lawrence Jaffe, "Man without charm"

4 Thursday, May 8, 2003

4 Wednesday, May 7, 2003

4 Tuesday, May 6, 2003