Poets Against War continues the tradition of socially engaged poetry by creating venues for poetry as a voice against war, tyranny and oppression.
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Poets Against War continues the tradition of socially engaged poetry by creating venues for poetry as a voice against war, tyranny and oppression. |
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Since January 2003, we've received thousands of poems, statements of conscience, and letters
of support. June, 2008 Ilona Martonfi, Age 66, Canada The Air Raid Randolph Nesbitt, Age 37, Aliso Viejo, CA A Brief, Despicable History of the World Bethel Prescott, Age 47 Haiku
May, 2008 Henry Braun, Age 76, Maine In Memory of Benjamin Linder John P. Cleary, Age 35 I have a soldier to thank Red Cloud I say not who I really am Antony Di Nardo, Age 58, West Beirut, Lebanon Tonight in West Beirut & You don't shoot the messenger Cole Eubanks, Age 57, Atlantic City, NJ Bridge Ken Head, Age 64, United Kingdom But the Child Died Kilian Kuntz, Age 53, Portland, OR Remember Natasha Maldonado, Age 22, New Jersey Iraq Muhammad Shanazar, Pakistan An Engrossed Mother Rayna Nielsen, Age 27, New Orleans, LA Washing Square Park
April, 2008 Beatrice G. Davis, Age 81 Then and Now Patricia Fargnoli, Age 65, New Hampshire Quotidian Poem Gene Grabiner In Our Hands Deirdre Lockwood, Age 31, Seattle, Washington American Sonnet Alison Mandaville, Age 44 Instructions To A War Tax Resister Sleeping Craig Oare, Age 55, Olympia, Washington Peace and War Bethel Prescott, Age 47 Untitled Haiku
March, 2008 Frank Craddock. Lynchburg, VA, Age 69, Stan Tom Goff, Carmichael, CA, Age 47, Sheer Simple Brute Peace Alegria Imperial, Vancouver, BC, Age 61, Rage, Deserter Carol Knepper, Age 61, Number the Poppies Mary Theresa Maggi, Moscow, ID, Age 52, An Iraqi Garbage Colector Nancy Metcalf, Age 68, Their Names Mark Murphy, Age 38, Seven Day Eternity Jessie O'Neil, Chapman University, California, Age 21, Kingdom Diane Spodarek, New York / New Zealand, In the no hills of Detroit (for Randy) January, 2008 Argelia Roman, What would you do? Gerard Sarnat, California, Age 62, 1986 Jeff Warzecha, Age 22, Notes From a Friend Marilyin Wallner,Carmichael, CA,Age 78, Collateral Damage Diana Ayton-Shenker, New York, Coming Home After Work to Sarah Martha Duncan, Age 57, Listen December, 2007 Mark Brunke, Age 39, Orpheus After the War Leo Yankevich, Age 46, Gliwice, Poland, No Flowers, No Doves November, 2007 Alicia Hoffman, Rochester, NY Coal Sarah Borsten, Age 22, And he Lands in a Place Randolph Nesbitt, Age 47, Aliso Viejo, CA Eva Braun Reflects October, 2007 Joseph Gastiger, Age 48, DeKalb, IL Rules of War, What Comes After Susan Kelly-DeWitt, Dogwood Norman Minnick, Another Peace Rally Constantine Pantazonis, Age 54, Dayton, Ohio, Delphi Anthony Tripi, Cambria, CA, AND THE WAR CAN GO ON FOREVER Robin Turner, Age 50, Dallas, Texas A Mother Writes to Laura Bush, Who Suffers
September, 2007 Laura Davies Foley, Age 49, New Hampshire Practicing Peace AWOL Joe (pseudonym), Age 34, Letter from an AWOL soldier, 34th Infantry Willie James King, Age 54, We Have Not Come That Far Clayton McCann, song of the legless marine Anne VanDeuson, Age 36, Virginia, Amnesia Ryan Vine, Minnesota, Self Portrait August, 2007 Jeannette Allée, HillBillions Wendy Brown, Age 54, What I Did For Peace Today John Fisher, Age 52 North Vancouver, B.C., Canada, Another Bomb in Bagdad Khristian M. Kay, Age 45, Untitled Mark Paltrineri, Age 22, Windows Greg Watson, Age 34, St. Paul, MN, Elsewhere
July, 2007 Mike Maxon, Age 28, Bits of Faith Leanne McIntosh, Age 65, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada, Rex Walton, Age 60, Lincoln, Nebraska, hold still: shrug noise Carolyn Srygley-Moore, Age 44, Upstate New York, Missing Soldiers
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