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

James Penha

56 years old
Jakarta, Indonesia

A native New Yorker, James Penha teaches at the Jakarta International School in Indonesia. Among the most recent of his many published works are poems in THEMA and a story in COLUMBIA.

RESONANCE

If I shake to hear ahead
of the tremors
to the earth
an infant already crying for a drop
of milk,

how shall I rest?

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