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

Angela C. Mankiewicz

50 years old
Los Angeles

Published in many journals, including HA Review, Slipstream, Tsunami/The Temple, Chiron, Lynx Eye, Pemmican, Montserrat.  Have two chapbooks out--Cancer Poems and Wired.  Have won a couple of first prizes, a Pushcart nomination, helped edit two small magazines.

Nuclear Idyll

But it isn't nothing,
it's lead-colored dust
like the fine ash from Mt. St. Helens
or the silky filings from carving sandstone.

It's Manhattan, deconstructed into oddlots of
    rubble;
L. A. collapsed like a circus tent;
it's wildcat winds howling like hoodlums over
    leveled farms,
stock-piling sand in corners of movie-set houses,
crashing civic bronze
with a leftover breath.

It's a dog, limping on 3 legs,
gnawing on the 4th;
a man with glow-worm eyes crouching
under the front seat of what was
the family van, gorging on a smoking
strip of bark.

And more.

It's tabula rasa; it's
Paradise.

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