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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Back to Poems of the Week Archive Thursday,July 31, 2003 Alisa Orellana, “Vigil I Tried” Clarissa Pinkola Estes, “THE ROSE WARRIOR (the poem)” Jeffrey Salane, “Whatever Exists” Pam Uschuk, “REMEMBERING THE TET OFFENSIVE AS I WATCH TROOPS SHIP OUT FOR A U.S. ATTACK ON IRAQ” Karina Byrne Ekduende, “OF HUMANITY: WAR MASK” 4 Wednesday, July 30, 2003 Gerald Nicosia, “What It’s Like to Live in a Time of Madness” Elisa Trampler, “PROTEST” Deborah DeNicola, “Dilating Skies” Dale Jacobson, “George W. Bush Reads the Future” Jeanne Connerney, “Birth in Blood” 4 Tuesday, July 29, 2003 Hedwig Gorski, “Empathy, Please: Note From an Enemy” Nora Gaines, “Nation” Jim Futrell, “High Blood” Norain Siddiqui, “I Will Not” Robin Good, “blood simple” 4 Monday, July 28, 2003 Daniel Martin, “Repeat Story” Kim Tapie, “Selective unmasking” Blaise Allen, “Topical Storm” Joe Giambrone, “MUTED” Joan Goodman, untitled 4 Sunday, July 27, 2003 Nora Swan Croll, “After Birth” Verona Danessi, “It Might Come” Joell Hallowell, “Seated on a Yellow Bus” Lisa Bourbeau, “This Day” Joe Crow, “The Hopi Way” 4 Saturday, July 26, 2003 Neil English, “Sweet
Dreams” Susan Blackwell Ramsey, “The Sow Bear’s Sonnet” Antoinette Nora
Claypool, “Trail
to Blue Lake” Chris Boardman, “To
my father, who worked on the B-52” Robin Beach, “Blue Mosque Along the Silk Road” 4 Friday, July 25, 2003 Bonnie Hill, “Baghdad Mother” Terry Hertzler, “The Pink Pickup” Noah Eli Gordon, “a black mirror for the capital” Sue Standing, “WAITING
FOR WAR” Thomas Fielding, “The Trees in Palestine” 4 Thursday, July 24, 2003 Jack Granath, “Children’s Story” Gene Grabiner, “RECENT HISTORY” Janet Dollacker, “THE PRION” Helen Ding, “The Soldiers I’ve Seen” Melissa Good, “Cultivate Peace” 4 Wednesday, July 23, 2003 Jeff Oaks, “From the Cathedral of Learning, University of Pittsburgh” David Perkins, “A
victory of the human heart” (Statement of Conscience) Kesaya E. Noda, “Make Us See” Alec Emerson, “World Trade Center” Aaaah Gijs Eagle, “The Sound” 4 Tuesday, July 22, 2003 alan botsford saitoh, “a mamaist gratitude” John T. Carter, “Not a poet” Guy Dan Schuyler, “War
For Peace?” jason blacker, “iron will” Deborah Bancroft, “Two Tuesdays” 4 Monday, July 21, 2003
Bob Bowen & Amy Lemmon, “Les Oiseaux Tristes” Khosi Xaba, “The
war America wants” Brian Langan, “The Bed” Nancy Owen Nelson, Ph.D., “An Ordinary Woman” Doug Thiele, “My Vietnam War Story” 4 Sunday, July 20, 2003 Mac Cohen, “Let Me Have This Moment” Paula Meehan, “Fist” Ahkos Ahkos, “their hands, bodies” Mark Lamoureux, “BETELGEUSE” Dave Foxall, “Walking down the street…” 4 Saturday, July 19, 2003 Kathryn Kysar, “After Vietnam” Warren Brown, “Second Poem for War” nancy judson, “The Boys Down the Street” Nick Koutsias, “Open Letter” George H. Madison, Jr., “Same Ole Crooked Song” 4 Friday, July 18, 2003 Ryan Eckes, “not as people” Luis L. Tijerina, “Defenders of Iraq” Susan M. Tiberghien, “Grandchildren” 4 Thursday, July 17, 2003 Harold Confer, “Public School Pathos” June Stepansky, “PEACE TALKS” Heidi Peppermint, “Cassie Tells It Like It Is” 4 Wednesday, July 16, 2003 Bridget Balthrop Morton, “Moreno Street” Harriet Feinberg, “TIMOR
MORTIS CONTURBAT ME” Harley Sachs, “Bayonet Practice” Steve Aeilts, “GW’s first one…” J.Oliver Ortega, “All The Stars Will Fade Out” 4 Tuesday, July 15, 2003 Theo Dorgan, “OF CERTAIN ARCHITECTS, TECHNICIANS AND BUTCHERS” Mary Francillon, “Lesson” Dana Pattillo, “Vietnam
War Memorial, Washington, October 11, 2002” Jacey Adams, “Sight” 4 Monday, July 14, 2003 Edmundo de la Garza, "Fallow shores adrift above the horizon" June Chase, “The Tribe” Rozz Leight, “Post/9/11/02 Two” George Pepper-Pepper, "Number Ten" 4 Sunday, July 13, 2003 Nathaniel Delafield,
“Origami
Aftermath” Louise Beitser, “Another Letter” George Otto, “Material Breach” Benjamin Lanier-Nabors,
“Table
Places” sarah rose clune, “grey sabbath” 4 Saturday, July 12, 2003 Suzan Bazett, “From
The Castle Of Our Bodies” Eddie Delbridge, “Some Other Man’s Son” Holly Iglesias, “Says Her Peace” Paul Bloom, “recollections and visions at a dinner out with friends” June Nirschl, “Let Peace Come” 4 Friday, July 11, 2003 Shara Faskowitz, “Glossolalia” Jonathan Burleson, “Peace” June BlueSpruce, “Tree Path” Ricardo Caballero, “No estaba…” Phoebe Grigg, “Favorite Episode” and “To George W” 4 Thursday, July 10, 2003 nick crow, “War” Nick Moudry, “then the bombs” Nick Smith, “Random thoughts, not a poem.” Nick Owen, “Friendly fire” Nick Maroudas, “The Three B’s” 4 Wednesday, July 9, 2003 Bin Ramke, “Been There Done That (Desert Warfare)” Mary Cousins, “If
It Feels Good Do It” Daniel Machlin, “from Flower Poems: Jedwabne” Luis Cabalquinto, “The Day After” Anne Marie Macari, Statement of Conscience 4 Tuesday, July 8, 2003 Jesse Sampson, (Untitled) Zec Vigil, “The Uncivilized Civilization” Jeremy von Halle, “Trying to finish what your daddy could not do” 4 Monday, July 7, 2003 Daisy Fried, “American Brass” Joanne Townsend, (untitled) Oliver Gassner, “usa” Benjamin Maradani, “A RAY OF HOPE IN THE DARKNESS” 4 Sunday, July 6, 2003 Dennis Crews, “Night
Trains” adam walsh, “irony” Marlyce Pedersen, “A
MOTHER’S HEART (for AHB)” Dale Benjamin Drakeford, “Peace Wanted Quiet” Lacey Dalby, “Drops” 4 Saturday, July 5, 2003 Thomas Coy, “dontkillourboys” Mark Hoffmann, ”freedom fighter?” Tegan Blackwood, “Enduring Freedom” Dana Garrett, “Stewed Tomatoes” 4 Friday, July 4, 2003 Eliot Katz, “To the Northern Winds July 4, 2002” Susan Elizabeth Abrams, “July” Gibson Fay-LeBlanc, “Independence Day” Jonas John, “Independence Day” Norma Kassirer, “a flagging fourth” Stephen Pradarelli, “Freedom
From Fear” Jennie Orvine, “Make Love Not War [Remembering Desert Storm – July 4]” 4 Thursday, July 3, 2003 lucy gillespie, “This is What Democracy Looks Like” (statement) Adam Fisher, “The Build-Up” Mary-Marcia Casoly, “War against War” John Bloomberg-Rissman, “These Fragments…” Rosemary Cappello, “SCULPTURE BY JACQUES LIPSCHITZ” 4 Wednesday, July 2, 2003 Rosemary Catacalos, “Morning Geography” Lillian Kennedy, “The Wind Howls” Johanna Bochner, “The First Order” Johan van Eeden, “Bush speaks” 4 Tuesday, July 1, 2003
Ricardo Basoalto, “Instead of Prayer” Carolyn Bateman, “A
Brief History of Anger” Jaryl Altomare,, “Chocolate Covered Frogs” 4 Monday, June 30, 2003 John Paul Adams, “Dying as light” James Bolger, “She wore War on her face” Meena Alexander, “Red Scarf” Janet Abramson, “A Lost Friend: What War Had Done to Arabs and Jews” Rebecca Beck, “In Line” 4 Sunday, June 29, 2003 Sloan Nota, “February 10, 2003: Waiting” Christiane Tsouo-Harvey,
(untitled) Tia Ballantine, “RAMALLAH” Christian Kiefer, “Sun Dogs” Jenna Blondel, “Baghdad” 4 Saturday, June 28, 2003
Stephen Kuusisto, “Wartime Radio” Katherine Fitzgerald, “And This Man is Our President” A.D. Carrico, “A Romantic Dance in Arms” Alisa E. Brown, “Those Are Fighting Birds” Larry Linder, “Lessons Never Learned” 4 Friday, June 27, 2003 Joe Haldeman, “Forever Peace” Charles Elliott, “The Dish” Marilar Aleixandre, “Resistance to ravage” gerald bass, “vietnam” Shaula Evans, “Separating Church and State” 4 Thursday, June 26, 2003 Salvatore Galioto, “Infantry” Jim Moreno, “el pastel de nueces (the fruit cake)” L. Amelio, “Dial 9-1-1. Again” Maria Filoumeni Delliou, “TRAGEDY” Charlie Newman, "testament redux" 4 Wednesday, June 25, 2003 Kathi Appelt, “Vendetta” Erica Finken, “The Cost of Confidence” alejandro saravia, “Winter in Chechnya” Cathy Lyndes, “Sunday Headlines” 4 Tuesday, June 24, 2003 Eva Yaa Asantewaa, “tenebrae” Bob Bengtsson, “mistakes” Madeline Angela Ridley, “They will build you a wall” Sandy Crimmins, “Grey Ash Girls” Zachary Scribe, “The Eisenhower Doctrine” 4 Monday, June 23, 2003 Catherine Sasanov, “Immolations” Mary Susannah Robbins, “Love in Time of War” Heather Watts, “LET’S NOT GOOF WITH WAR” David Biviano, “Bury me in El Salvador” Al Viebranz, “The Messenger” 4 Sunday, June 22, 2003 alejandro anónimo,
“desperation” Beau Golwitzer, “untitled poem against war and for love” Martin Small, “Santayana Said” and “Legacy” Eric Viau, “My first confirmed kill” Muhammad Farooq Siddiqui, “Iraq & Oil” 4 Friday, June 20, 2003
Madeline Kiser, “Autumn” Janet Abramson, “A Lost Friend: What War Had Done to Arabs and Jews” Sarah Campbell, “What We Have Here Is Not a New Sentence” Sarah M. Zang, “Cursing Samuel Morse” Norma Anapol, “It’s Hard to Believe”
4 Thursday, June 19, 2003
Jonathan Fortney, “The Prince” John Bloomsberg-Rissman, “And” Cali Linfor, “Day at the Beach” Nancy Gifford, “Excerpts from 25 Haiku poem Collection…” Airini Beautrais, “when i was seven”
4 Wednesday, June 18, 2003
Fred Bertsch, “Drums of Antietam” Rashidah Ismaili, “When doves leave” Stacie Boschma, “Tommy Franks (October ’02)” Penny Jo Chessman, “Prisoner of War”
Ana Ramirez Barker, “Dignity”
4 Tuesday, June 17, 2003
Peter Whalen, “Bell Toll” Karren
Alenier, “The
War Against Death” Shelley Chernin, “Holes” Maia Larios, “Cries of War” Ana Ramirez Barker, “Dignity’
4 Monday, June 16, 2003
Lynn Werner, “A Boy and His Father” Karen Bernardo, “Power” Patrick Tiernan, “One Country at a Time” Gary Larson, “If Only Calendars Were King – and Days Went on Forever” Mila D. Aguilar, “The Beast”
4 Sunday, June 15, 2003
Henry Berne, “Even At The End Of The War” Jim Clark, “Journal: Song of the Survivor” Jeanne Larsen, “SNOW IN A SEASON OF WAR-TALK AND DROUGHT” Donna Allard, “MAPLE LEAF” John Otterness, “We Wait”
4 Saturday, June 14, 2003
Alba Barberia, "Words .......” Mimi Moriarty, “Peace Poem” Breanne Kraft, "untitled” Athansia Gregoriades, “The Fallen Unknown” Sara Amis, “not yours”
4 Friday, June 13, 2003
Melissa Morphew, “Why: Letter from the War” and “Fear”
Ira Sukrungruang, “To Be Naked and Protesting”
Jean
Anaporte-Easton, “April
Rising (In Spite of Us)” Gabriela De Golia, “WAR” Marilyn Krysl, “Goya’s FIGHT WITH CUDGELS”
4 Thursday, June 12, 2003
Laura Colliander-Lappalainen, “Ask no more” Carole McWilliams, “Life in the Occupied Territories” Barbara Quintiliano, “Rag Doll (2)” Jacqueline Tchakalian, “February 2003” Tim Liardet, Statement of Conscience
4 Wednesday, June 11, 2003
Ricardo Basoalto, “Instead of Prayer” Yon Walls, “ASAMI’S TEARS” Karen Lewis, “Substitute Teacher” Michael Hogan, “With The Mine Removal Team” Nancy Berg Coleman, “TEAROURWRITSTS, said the little girl, TEAROUREYES”
4 Tuesday, June 10, 2003
Eero Ruuttila,”National Geographic: Old News” Roger
Dunsmore, “A
True War Story”
Bonnie Fisher, “Lilies” L. Amelio, “Dial 9-1-1. Again” Dominique Raeuber, “War”
4 Monday, June 9, 2003
Roc Vickery, “Blossoms (Vietnam, 1969)” Ajmer Rode, “Red Soup in My Bowl” Ingrid Fabianson, “Smoke Screen” Robert Eichinger, “NATIONALISM, a Bobinelle” Moustafa El Hefnawy, “Northern greed”
4 Sunday, June 8, 2003
Gina Ulysse, “Excerpt from ‘Concepts of Home’” Donna
O’Connell, “Anesthesia” Michael Rowley, “We are Already at War, Six Odes” Alison Kent, “Birds in War” Roy M. Moore, “America in 2003”
4 Saturday, June 7, 2003
Dorothy Regal, “Waiting” Janine Pommy Vega, “In the Age of Grasshoppers” Subuhi Jiwani, “To: NYPD and vibrant anti-war protestors” Janet Egan, “Guns and Butter” Ian Bell, “Think Of The Main Game”
4 Friday, June 6, 2003
laurie kuntz, “Rescue” Sebastian Matthews, “Broken Wing” Thompson Clifford, “WAR” Riaan
Pretorius, “Brother
against brother” Sally Deems-Mogyordy,
"The
Raw Depression of a Pacifist"
4 Thursday, June 5, 2003
Padmore Agbemabiese,
“THIS
DREAM" ray
black, “playing” Karla Clark, “Protest” Donald
Morrill, “Might” Katie Lennon, “Covering Guernica”
4 Wednesday, June 4, 2003
Bobby Alexander, “doves” Melanie
A. Adcock, (Statement
of Conscience) Dawn
O’Creene Saunders, “State
of the Union” Gerry Tamm, “Toy Soldiers” Peter H. Pache, “old people play war”
4 Tuesday,
June 3, 2003 Michael Taeckens, “Poem for the War Dead” Patricia D’Alessandro, “VILLANELLE FOR ALL OUR SONS” Jerry Danielsen, “What?” Joyce LaMers, “POV at 80+” Annie Wyndham, “For Isaiah”
4 Monday,
June 2, 2003 David
Umlas, “untitled
haiku” Susan Ito, “Missing Children” Eric Johansson, “Collateral Damage” Patricia Ikeda, “Anniversary” Christina
Pacosz, “Isis
Again”
4 Saturday, May 31, 2003 Silvia Antonia Brandon-Pérez, “Opening all the doors” Michael
Burke, “HERE
AND THERE” Van
K. Brock, “FOR
FRIENDS AND THEIR CHILDREN: PALESTINIAN AND ISRAELI” Dan
Carpenter, “Transplant
Nov. 21, 1989” James E. Jennings, Ph.D., “I Hate This Terror War”
4 Friday, May 30, 2003 Rei
Berroa, "Three
Variations on the Theme of Peace and the Dove (In Spanish & English)” Ace
Boggess, “Pretend
It Doesn’t Matter For Tonight” Chris
Tanner, “Elephants” Cassandra
Saulter, “DAY
OF BIRTH” Brian Morrissey, “As We Lay Down to Sleep”
4 Thursday, May 29, 2003 Olivia Seally, “Save Us” Nick Keenan, “I Seem to Have Forgotten America” James O’Connell, “The Eleventh of September Two Thousand and One” L.
Nguyen, "A
Message to Mr. Bush" Murat Sayim, “I cannot express”
4 Wednesday, May 28, 2003 Andrew Haley,
“inattention” 4 Tuesday, May 27, 2003 Gianna Russo,
“Roses
Named Fourth of July” 4 Monday, May 26, 2003 Trish Crapo,
“Memorial” 4 Sunday, May 25, 2003 Marjatta Kaarakka, "After
a document" 4 Saturday, May 24, 2003 John Kinsella, "Moment
in the Sun" 4 Friday, May 23, 2003 Llyn Clague, “To Future Generations” Keith Wilkinson, “The future meaning of” Cynthia Allison, “Future Lament”
Ralph Black, “Future Tense”
Peggy Davis, “Future Perfect Tense” Dale Jacobson, “George W. Bush Reads the Future”
Annabel Uhrich, “The Past of our Future”
4 Thursday, May 22, 2003 Gary Williams,
"Average" 4 Wednesday, May 21,2003 Sean Hoban,
"justice" 4Tuesday, May 20, 2003 Chad Faries, "Rash" 4Monday, May 19, 2003 Peter Sears, “COLLATERAL DAMAGE” 4 Sunday, May 18, 2003 Kyle Drewes, "Soft Decisions" Caitlyn Mathews, "Forgive me" Courtney Merritt, "Another Place" Edward Horn, "Primal Justice" maarten de lee, "Black future candy" Allison Bierschield, "Justice for All" 4Saturday, May 17, 2003 Ina Cumpiano, "Guernica at the Millenium" Kate Maloy, "Guernica: The Art of War" Sandra McRae, "guernica unveiled" Jayce Renner, "Guernica Cloaked" Matt Donovan, "Guernica's First Draft" 4 Friday, May 16, 2003Joseph Stroud, “Between Hamlet and Heart of Darkness, First Day of the Bombing in Afghanistan” Lindsay Flood, “-The Heart of War-” Suzanne G. Griffith, “Heart Reason” Linda Umans, “Tony’s Heart (Op Ed in Harrisburg)” Debra Meyer, “Heartbreak” Jeri Niedenfuer, “State of the Heart” 4 Thursday, May 15, 2003Doraine
Poretz, “For
Their Holiness In Time of Heartbreak” Mary Meriam, “HEART BREAK”
Melissa Mathieu, “It Pierces the Heart” Christopher Anderson, “My Own Heart Let Me More Encumber” David Blickenstaff, “Heartfelt from the Heartland”
4 Wednesday, May 14, 2003Lucia
Cordell Getsi, “Living
in Trees” Ian
McCausland, “these
buildings are alive” Bradley
David Neily, “A
Warning of Something Coming Alive” Dawn
Potter, “Buried
Alive with George W. Bush” Gail
Wronsky, “O
Alive Who Are Dead”
4 Tuesday, May 13, 2003Kay
Berg, “Humanities
101” Elizabeth
Krajeck, “Vacuuming
Between Wars” Jo-Ann
Ledger, “Provisions” David
La Bounty, “Space
Available” F.
J. Bergmann, “To
the Victims of Oppression and Terrorism”
4 Monday, May 12, 2003
Robert M. Chute,
“IN LIEU
OF FLOWERS” Consuelo Underwood,
“Indigo:
code for low-flying missile” Marilyn Donnelly,
“War
Haiku” Laurie W. Stoelting,
“Untitled” Erin O’Keeffe,
“What’s
Left Behind”
4 Sunday, May 11, 2003
Bart Piela, “Crimson
Cries” Jose Horacio de Almeida
Nascimento Costa, “THE
PROPHET PHOO AND THE SALAMANDER” Jeffrey Buehler,
“The Sad
and Aching Heart” Lesego Semenya,
“Help
needed” Nenad Glisic, “BAGDADSKA
ELEGIJA/BAGHDADIAN ELEGY”
4 Saturday, May 10, 2003Giulio Stocchi, "For
future memory" 4 Friday, May 9, 2003Virginia Bates, “When the World Settles Down” Sydney Brisker, “1941/2001” Marlies
Parent, “ASK
THE OLD PEOPLE” Margaret Babbott, “PRESCIENCE” Stephen Cachia, “The Ones Who Must Pay – 24th October 2001”
4 Thursday, May 8, 2003Daniel
Abdal-Hayy Moore, “WAR” Daniel
R. Collins, “9-11-02”
and “statement of thanks to Sam Hamill, and all of you” Luis L. Tijerina, “Against the Iraqi War After a Winter Storm” Martha Sanchez-Lowery, “Leonid Night” Sandra
Lucke, “There’s
a Bowl for Emptying Out”
4 Wednesday, May 7, 2003Zachary
Jean Chartkoff, "Ode
to a Navy Nurse" Alice
Benedict, “haiku” Marion
Harrison, “OSSE
TO OSSICULUM” Brendan
Corcoran, “On
Considering the Likeness of Cluster Bombs and MRE's” Gretchen
Caffrey, “War
Sickness”
4 Tuesday, May 6, 2003Tiffany Midge, “Mount Rushmore & the Arm of Crazy Horse” olu oguibe, “Horsemen of the Apocalypse” Arthur Durkee, “horse at breath” Linda Hanson, “The Red Horses” Jeff Schiffman, “The Horseman”
4 Monday, May 5, 2003Sherry Chandler, “Bombed Wedding”
James Bolger, “She wore War on her face”
Nina
Serrano, “All
My Life There Has Always Been a War”
Beatrice O’Brien, “At the Wall, Weeping”
Eric Smith, “Winged Hope”
4 Sunday, May 4, 2003Dory Leviss, “The Atom Bomb” Sister Marian Walbe, “Peace, Not War” Clem Block, “Comments to Bush” Bernice
Rendrick, “Resolve” Norma Kassirer, “a flagging fourth” Beryl John-Knudson,
“Dear
Laura” janet c. re’, “sleeping” Harley Sachs, “Bayonet Practice” Leigh
Talbot, “Women
in Black” 4 Saturday, May 3, 2003Rachael Maddux, “Prelude to a Nightmare” Jessalynn Kerry James, “el toro” Roy Maendel, “Peace and Love” max levitt, “great spirit” Firefly, “They Are Like Wolves” Alexa Johnson, “America The…” Robin Tala, “One is Infinity” Devin Madden, “Somewhere, Somehow.” 4 Friday, May 2, 2003Susan Bazett, “War” Patrick Wilson-Welch, “Living Daylights” James Brock, “The End of the Age of Irony” Sally Driscoll, "3 anti-war haiku" Scott Bailey, “Sweet
Potato Bread” 4 Thursday, May 1, 2003Erin Hoffman, “Broken Wings” Robin Jacobson, “Sonnet: Wings” Gregg Kleiner, “Growing Up With Goldfinches” Emerson Gilmore, “When the Blackbird Reached the Highlands” Kate Bertrand, “What Did the Birds Do?” 4 Wednesday, April 30, 2003margo solod and carolyn ogburn, “On This First Day” Mark Joyce, “Make Them Turn” Chris Tanner, “Elephants” Roy M. Vestrich, “Sunday at the National Mall” Alison Quoyeser, “An Ode to Ordinary Things” 4 Tuesday, April 29, 2003Kathi Appelt, “Vendetta” Melissa Tuckey, “Poem for the Man Who Told Me Shut Up During the President's State of the Union Address” Natalie Peeterse, “New Year 2003” Nicholas Vittum, “Night
watch” Rick Alley, “Bombs” 4 Monday, April 28, 2003Max Garland, “The
Bombers, A Greek Love Tale” Sandra Ahrens, “Please
Know, This War is Not in My Name” Louise Rachel Quigley, “Poem in a Dangerous Winter” Gary Boelhower, “I Dare To Wish You Peace” F.J. Bergmann, “To the Victims of Oppression and Terrorism” 4 Sunday, April 27, 2003Alice Dodge, “Poppies” Sam Hamod, “600
Cruise Missiles” Michael Channing, “The Wall” Svetlana Kilina, “Two Thousand Years, after Victor Tsoi” Matthew Edmund Miller, “Complicity” 4 Saturday, April 26, 2003Susan O’Doherty, “Let us try what love can do” Kathy
O'Fallon, “A
Thousand Ways to Heal” Sean O’Brien, “the mouths of babes” Regina O'Melveny, "Let us turn away from easy destruction" Mike O’Connor, “Poesy
and Tea at the White House With Laura or Dead Poets in Society” 4 Friday, April 25, 2003Jeff Kirsh, “Everyone But Generals” Sundance Banks, “Poem on the Eve of War” Jos Accapadi, “History” Anne Bailey, “We are together come” Morgan Ballou, “Unite” 4 Thursday, April 24, 2003Kathleen Spivak, “(Untitled)” Molly Lanzarotta, “At the Al Horeya Restaurant I Tore Someone’s Shirt” Annie Belz, “Dreamtalk” Kathleen Aguero, “Medusa” Sandra Locke, “Captured” 4 Wednesday, April 23, 2003Jaryl Altomare, “Chocolate Covered Frogs” Philip Dacey, “Found Sonnet: Remarks Overheard at the Wall (Washington, D.C.)" James McNeel, “[the
drums - doldrums of war - hover]” Andris Akmentins, “Window of Lovers” Bob Eggers, “Quarter-Moon Over Indio” 4 Tuesday, April 22, 2003Saladino Marcello, “Untitled” Charlie and Laura Langdon, “All
Ours, Winter 2003” Marion Davidson, “Channeling
Emily” George Guida, “On
not marching against war in the Middle East” Justin Cannon, “One
Body” 4 Monday, April 21, 2003Victoria Ford, “TO
MY SISTER IN IRAQ” Jane Bier, “Haiku
for Peace” Michael Crogan, “Peace
Haiku” Maria Steyn, “Two
Haiku” Tullia Baldassari Hoger von
Hogersthal, “two
haiku against war” 4 Sunday, April 20, 2003Zachary Macholz, "Fear" Laura Puryear Finnell, “Listening to the Secretary of State on the Car Radio” Janet Eigner, "Wearing My Daughter's Underpants to the Peace March" Charlie James,
"Relief
Would Come They Said" Carol Jane Bangs, “Sleeping in Richard’s Studio” 4 Saturday, April 19, 2003George Ella Lyon, “PRAYER”
Danielle
DuMerer, “A
Journey of Monarchs: NYC Protests, February 15, 2003”
Marion
Robertshaw, “Acrostic”
and “The Spring”
george
fleck, “War
Reason”
Sally
Bowles, "The
Short Of It" 4 Friday, April 18, 2003Daniel Lusk, “A Sort of Proof” and “Shadows Shadows” Laura Pinto Orem, “United States Navy, Salvage and Rescue” Sarah Meyer, “Witness to War” Barbara Buckman Strasko, “Ode to the Berrigans” hatto fischer, “All things afloat” 4 Thursday, April 17, 2003Andrew Toler, “The Jackasses and Their Ogre” alix olson, “dorothea tanning” Lynn Martin, “After Reading Czeslaw Milosz” Daniel Kantak, “What If They Gave a War and Everyone Came” coleman barks, “Just This Once” 4 Wednesday, April 16, 2003Mary Lathrop, “Plain Talk” Jonathan King, “Iraq Spring” Karen Lenburg, “charges” Michael Welch, “Iraqi Boys” Ellen Setteducati, “A NOT-SO-ESCHATOLOGICAL GUIDE TO JUST A FEW OF THE WORLD'S RELIGIONS” 4 Tuesday, April 15, 2003phil wagner, “History Studies” Lynn Strongin, “War Any Mortal Thing” Margrit Pittman, “The Hand” Antonia Quintana Pigno, “The Function of Poetry (for Mrs. Bush)” Dan Berggren, "this moment" 4 Monday, April 14, 2003Charles Alexander, “to war is to find” Robert Sanders, “I have not yet begun" Mike Pignatora, “graveyard blues” Dan Carr, "A Refusal to Write an Anti-War Poem" Dominic Fox, “Weapons Inspections” 4 Sunday, April 13, 2003Robert Dana, “IN
HEAVEN” Lorraine Gane, “IN
THE FIELDS OF IRAQ?” Mary Morris, “Modern
Daguerrotype I” Michael Wolfe, “Guernica:
The Horse” Bob Salskov, “Tea
and Declaration of Peace” 4 Saturday, April 12, 2003Nenad Glisic,
“BAGDADSKA
ELEGIJA / BAGHDADIAN ELEGY”
SangKe, “Baghdad Child, 02/1991” Sasa Jancikic,
“Stop
America’s rage” Namik Safyurek, Statement of Conscience
Aya Burweila, "The Cows of War"
4 Friday, April 11, 2003Anonymous, “My Camel” Jeffrey Alfier, “DRIVING UP TO RED FLAG” Elena Karina Byrne, “NECROPOLIS WAR MASK: A BEARER OF TWO FACES” Nicholas Jackson, “speak a blessing” Laura Beard, “Race and Revel” 4 Thursday, April 10, 2003Michelle Retford, "NIGHTVISION" Bill Tremblay, "THE ETERNAL RETURN OF THE SAME" Jean Alderman, "Who Hears?" Daniel Blaisdell, "Chilling Thoughts" Betty Aberlin, "What Bush Can Do" 4 Wednesday, April 9, 2003Colby Chester, "Sub-Text" Jeff Poniewaz, "Disarming Charm" Ellen Dore Watson, "Death by Plastic" Dane Dervine, "What We Have To Offer" Terzi Anthony, "Non-March" 4 Tuesday, April 8, 2003Terese Svoboda, "When the Next Big War Blows Down the Valley" Florence Dacey, "After the Attack" Andrea Potos, "PERHAPS" Dinah Berland, "Airplanes" Betty Edelman, "Making a Statement" 4 Monday, April 7, 2003Chris Brandt, "ODYSSEUS TO HIS SON" Franz Andres Morrissey, "Andromache" Daniel Amiano, "que..." Murat Sayim, "I cannot express" Wayne-Daniel Berard, "Quiet Theory (direct action)" 4 Sunday, April 6, 2003Dan Bellm, Statement of Conscience, "A Moment of Silence Before the Next War," and "My Prayer" Sinan Antoon, "A Prism ; Wet With Wars" Sally Carricaburu, "Cold War" Jordan Barsness, "What evidence" David Halpert, "Ground Zero Tanka" 4 Saturday, April 5, 2003joseph calderone, "Horseheads 911" Louise Rachel Quigley, "Poem in a Dangerous Winter" Joe Aimone, "Insomniac Prayer, Part Two" Eveline-Adele Halpert, "Evvie's Limerick" Jeff Schiffman, "The Horseman" 4 Friday, April 4, 2003Viggo Mortensen, "Back to Babylon" Michael Zbigley, "Mountain-shadowed, this town" Max Garland, "The Bombers, A Greek Love Tale" Siddque Ahmed, "Peace" F.J. Bergmann, "To the Victims Of Oppression and Terrorism" 4 Thursday, April 3, 2003Jack Farrell, Untitled Ricardo Amezquita, "A Nuclear Family Poem" Quentin Baker, "The Guns of July" Jackson Rudolph, "Our Face" puri alvarez, "Peace on the 15th of July" 4 Wednesday, April 2, 2003M. L. Williams, "Why I continue to protest the war after it has commenced" Katherine Grace Bond, "The First Lady Invites You to a Symposium on Poetry and the American Voice" Jaclyn Friedman, "State of the Union: A Lost and Found Poem" Tasneem Khalid, "My America" Frank Walkingfeather, "on preparing for war" 4 Tuesday, April 1, 2003Robert Arlt, "The Race of War" Carolyn Gregory, "NIGHT LIGHT" Timothy Liu, "Knowing When to Stop" George Otto, "Material Breach" Carolyn Bateman, "A Brief History of Anger" 4 Monday, March 31, 2003Carlen Arnett, "Statement & Conscience" Raymond Thibodeaux, "A Kind of Blinding" and Statement of Conscience Ellen Bass, "Pray for Peace" Patricia Nelson, "Iraqui War Haiku" Patrick Daly, "The War" 4 Sunday, March 30, 2003Sina Queyras, "Spangled" Carol Davis Koss, "Street Scene -- When All Is Said and Done" Kate Bertrand, "What Did the Birds Do?" Andres Sebastian Besserer, "From distant landscapes..." Scott Wannberg, "Emily Dickinson in Iraq" 4 Saturday, March 29, 2003Alexandra Indira Sanyal, "Untitled" Sonia Arora, "Cornered" Bobby Alexander, "Doves" Nels Christianson, "the old soldiers" Rick Newby, "Montana Landscape, Wartime Blues" 4 Friday, March 28, 2003Paul Chubbuck, "Grief Prayer" Christina Fernandez, "Winter's Eve" Bob Pavlik, "My Nephew" Vincent Mowrey, "The Memory of Eyes" HOANG LINH, "TO SIRS" 4 Thursday, March 27, 2003Marjorie Rommel, "The grandmothers go to war" Adrianne Kalfopoulou, "Photograph (Athens, 1943)" Mark Burrows, "Three Silences" Marion Boyer, Her Favorite Story" Bitters Aaamerica, "How would you feel? if" 4 Wednesday, March 26, 2003Lark Simmons, "Let Them Have Conversation" Joan Swift, "THE MIDWAY SAILS FOR VIETNAM, April 10, 1972" Mark (HQ) Crawford, "The Sentries" Patricia Bernstein, "Choices" Mark Dixon, "Cold Bronze" 4 Tuesday, March 25, 2003Joel Friederich, "A Fairy Tale" Sherry Rind, "Fluidity" Hiroaki Hayashi, "We can hear the lines" Linda Vilhjalmsdottir, "Statement of Conscience" Kati Hamilton, "Our World" 4 Monday, March 24, 2003Adrienne Bennett, "A Poem of Dreams and Wind" Pit Menousek Pinegar, "In Iraq" Arturo Valdez Castro, "THE LAST TABLET" Ron Antonucci, "War Words" 4 Sunday, March 23, 2003Gerry McFarland, "Gunner Apologizes for Not Shooting"; "Gunner Tells What Happened"; "Gunner Tries To Die" Anna Balint, "Mr. Shimoe" leslie barnwell, "Urgent message to bush and cohorts" marion zeeman, "Kashmar (Nightmare)" 4 Saturday, March 22, 2003Leigh Herrick, "What Will Happen to You" Etnairis Rivera, "The Righteous Peace Song" Lola Haskins, "November, 2001" Abraham Nahum, "chip warfare" Jiaquan Fan, "From A Chinese Student in Washington" 4 Friday, March 21, 2003Ellen Hinsey, "INTERDICTION" Abbas Saffari, "WAR IN A DEAD END ALLEY" John Gajewski, "Viewing a Photograph Made by Susan Meiselas" Kirsten Dierking, "JANUARY 2003" J. Elizabeth Clark, "Resident's Notes: Chief Complaint-1 a.m." 4 Thursday, March 20, 2003Daniel Kiely, "I don't want my wife to die" Margaret McCarthy, "AN ARGUMENT IN THE KITCHEN" Jaan Kaplinski, "Bertrand Russell 1872 - 1970" River Malcolm, "Two Marys in Madison, Wisconsin" Svetlana Kilina, "Two Thousand Years, after Victor Tsoi, translated from Russian" 4 Wednesday, March 19, 2003Robyn Hunt, "My Home Can Fly" Joy Dworkin, "Morning at the Neretva River. November 8, 1993." Louis Jenkins, "War Surplus" M. Tracey Chesler, "Sleeping Bears" richard king, "Catch 23" 4 Tuesday, March 18, 2003Todd Huffmann, "The End Of The Day" Rita Brady Kiefer, "Trilogy of War Poems" Rajaa A. Gharbi, Three poems from "From Songs of a Grasshopper" Marisol Kaminski, "Deh Wahrein at Harvest Time" Jayne Kaszynski, "El Dia De Los Muertos" 4 Monday, March 17, 2003Mark Frutkin, "Reinventing the World" Katherine Hawkins, "Our city, your war" Rafael Salvador, "Poor of Love" Diane Saenz, "poets don't win wars" Lucia Cordell Getsi, "Living in Trees" 4 Sunday, March 16, 2003Arancha Cienfuegos, "Have you ever been to Mostar?" Maria Menexeli, "Ark of souls" Yehia Lababidi, "Hard Days" Guadalupe Saavedra, "My dreams" Abraham Aaran-Lee, "A Nobler Flame" 4 Saturday, March 15, 2003William Ashworth, "WAR POEM" Jeff Gundy, "Epiphany with Sirens and White-Tail" Shilpa Kamat, "story my mother told me" Michaela Kahn, "conspiracy of trains" Liz Macaulay, "Willows" 4 Friday, March 14, 2003Susan Atefat-Peckham, "24. Our Vigil" Jenny Goldberg, "Black Angel" Manuel Van Thienen, "MAISON (HOME)" Houda Al Naamani, "Tomorrow" Jeremy Voigt, "Warehouse Talk" 4 Thursday, March 13, 2003Isabel Keating, "Laura's Lament" Peter Harris-Kunz, "Home in a Box Blues" Naomi Replansky, "Epitaph 1945" Rashaan Alexis Meneses, "Statement of Conscience from a Twenty-something Angeleno" Ann Brennan, "Soul People" 4 Wednesday, March 12, 2003bob bullock, "When Tom Peacock Came Home" Amanda Leigh Rogers, "The Souls of the Beautiful Dead Live in That Place" Julie Suarez, "Coming Home, September 11, 2001" Matt Beagle Bourgault, "The Zero Factor" Tina Castaneres, "New Song of Innocence and Experience" 4 Tuesday, March 11, 2003winnie wong, "sanctuary under a palm frond" Elizabeth Gordon, "Game Is Over, President Tells Iraq (newspaper headline 2-7-03)" Bill Watremblay, "LETTER TO SAM HAMILL" Susan Goodwill, No War Button" Beth Cortez-Neavel, "Absolutely Nothing" 4 Monday, March 10, 2003James Moore, "SOON" Michelle Noullet, "The Grace of Angels" Sue Walker, "Shipping Out" Joel Peckham, "Asleep at the wheel" Susan Anthony, "On George W. Bush - A Haiku" 4 Sunday, March 9, 2003Nicomedes Suárez-Araúz, "PROLOGUE TO END ALL WARS" Gaurav Thapa, "The Unsure Eyes" Floyce Alexander, "Dream of Cesar Vallejo" Buff Whitman-Bradley, "Freshly shelled peas" joan wagner, "my old dog is a pacifist" 4 Saturday, March 8, 2003Martin Stiengesser, "I KEEP THINKING OF YOU, VICTOR JARA" Leonore Wilson, "Tomoko Uemura Is Bathed by Her Mother" Bridget Balthrop Morton, "Moreno Street" John Paul Adams, "Dying as light" Maxwell Corydon Wheat Jr., "Iraq" Nadine Kachur, "How It Was Before" 4 Friday, March 7, 2003Helen Shanley, "TV Take on What We Did to Afghanistan" Alessandro Agostinelli, "brodskij" Naomi Replansky, "Epitaph 1945" Joanne Gonzalez, "Everything" Steve Blake, "No" 4 Thursday, March 6, 2003K. Stafford, for William Stafford, "Entering History" Group Poem from El Centro de la Raza, ages 7-10, "Imagining How It's Going To Be" Timothy Young, "The Thread of Sunlight" Susan McKeon-Steinmann, "Seeds of Kent State" Carol Igoe, "Names" 4 Wednesday, March 5, 2003Robert Sanders, "Statement of Conscience" and "I have not begun" Marjatta Kaarakka, "After a document" Mohja Kahf, "Parturition" Janet Aalfs, "Citizen of a Superpower Sits At Abd El-Hadi's Table" Tim Connelly, "The Village Where Innocents Died" and "The Cost of War" 4 Tuesday, March 4, 2003kenneth lincoln, "Los Alamos Cloudburst" Oswald LeWinter, "NOCTES IRAE" Sarah Anderson, "Things to do this afternoon" Joseph Aprile, "Life Cheap Death Expensive" and "War" Anne de Hugard, "Frost Tender" Carol Conroy, "Statement of Conscience" 4 Monday, March 3, 2003Matthew Cavnar, "True Story" Pilar Gomez-Ibanez, "That We Might Leave This Place" Harriette P. Cohn, "Let Us Have Peace" john smith, "blue jay" Jon Cone, "Morning" Laurel Snyder, "Long Walk: the Day Before" 4 Sunday, March 2, 2003Jennifer Ansbach, "The Reservist" Kate Noakes, "don't say this in my name" Philip Appleman, "THIS YEAR'S VALENTINE" Eseohe Arhebamen, "You stars, come down" Caroline Ravenfox, "memories of war, an anti war pantoum" 4 Saturday, March 1, 2003Barbara Ras, "Remorse the Color of Lavender" Thomas Bailey, "Seeing the Light" Beth Raymer, "A child's century of war" Erica Weick, "Sunset lessons"" 4 Friday, February 28, 2003Gail V. Amburgey, "These Days" Tanner Shipley, "My Wish for the World" George Callan, "Who is This Sorrow?" Edgar Silex, "Chief Nanay Appears in the Holy Land" 4 Thursday, February 27, 2003Alex Meliones, "my right and left" and "a little deer" Elizabeth Austen, "The Permanent Fragility of Meaning" Jim Pearson, "kunishi ridge 2nd bn., first marines" Penelope Austin, "War Breaks Out Again" Frank DeSanto, "The Futility of Anti-War Poetry" 4 Wednesday, February 26, 2003Stephen Pradarelli, "Freedom From Fear" John Sevcik, "The MIA" Majid Naficy, "A Song for Peace" Susan McKeon-Steinmann, "Seeds of Kent State" 4 Tuesday, February 25, 2003For personal reasons, we were unable to post daily poems for Monday, February 24. Thank you for understanding. Ellen Setteducati, "AND CROWN THY GOOD WITH BROTHERHOOD" Leah Ancel, "Catch Me" Patricia Friedland, "Statement of Conscience" Buland áal-Haidary, "Old Age" Beatrix Gates, "Inaugural" 4 Sunday, February 23, 2003alise alousi, “What to Count” Sally Avignone, “Selling Flowers” Sophia Crawford-Hayes, “I Don't Like War" Randolph Nesbitt, “The Curious King” Joshua Weitz, “Golan Wine” 4 Saturday, February 22, 2003Marjorie Manwaring, “Answers from the Man Who Tried to Cook an Egg over the Eternal Flame in Paris” Halley Angela Brooks, “The Lucky Ones” Nancy Culbertson, “Spectacle” Kent Johnson, “Baghdad” Clem Block, Comments to Bush Michael Coady, Statement
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