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

Jack Granath

35 years old
Kansas City, MO

Writes poetry, works in a library.

Children's Story

A friend who fought beside him brought him home
To die.  He drank some water, said good-bye,
And went to find a corresponding fate.
The daughter and the son were left alone
To contemplate their newly shattered lives
And tend their squandered father, insides piled
In puddles on the blanket next to him.
The redcoats must have lost their British tempers.
Uneasy in all that they would have to do
Other than raise and take the story forward,
They bent to gather in his last few words,
A cheerful curse upon the clutch of empire.

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