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

djelloul marbrook

75 years old

Djelloul Marbrook's first book of poems, Far From Algiers, won the Stan and Tom Poetry Prize in 2007 and was published by Kent State University Press. His story, Artists Hill, adapted from an unpublished novel, won first prize in fiction from Literal Latté in 2008. He is a retired newspaper reporter and editor and lives with his wife and colleague, Marilyn, in the mid-Hudson Valley of New York. His blog, djelloulmarbrook.com, offers literary, cultural and political commentary.

Hiccup

Hiccup

War is a hiccup
compared to the old man’s disappearance
from his usual street corner.
Where is the half-mast flag for him?
Not in the annals of decency.
That bare corner swept of him—
that is a conflagration
and a page on which to begin
his story as if it matters,
because it does and war is a hiccup.

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