"The history of poetry is filled with advocacy, private and public. It is our privilege to draw on that history and to educate our friends and neighbors – and ourselves – to extend the vast pleasures and wisdom of poetry as we explore ideas, working to make a peaceful world together. In telling the story, in singing the song, there is always the poetry behind the words, both the beautiful and the deceitful."

On April 30, Pamela S. Meidell and Janet Bloomfield from The Atomic Mirror presented the online anthology of Poets Against the War to the delegates of the NPT Treaty, at the Palais des Nations of the United Nations, in Geneva, Switzerland.

At the noontime press conference on Capitol Hill, the words of W.S. Merwin, Terry Tempest Williams and Sam Hamill cast a spellbound silence over reporters and film crews, over members of Congress and the European Parliament who had all packed into a small conference room on Capitol Hill.

The presentation to the 13,000 poems was made directly to the Prime Minister of Canada, in Ottawa, by Member of Parliament Ms. Paddy Torsney from Burlington, Ontario. She made the presentation on March 25th and made an announcement in Parliament on March 26th.

Throughout the spring, hundreds of articles on Poets Against the War appeared in newspapers and magazines, online and in print, across the globe.