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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Here's a Complete Listing of Poems of the Week from August, 2003 to December, 2006 To see a selection of poems and statements by prominent poets, go to the Chapbook. To see the Poems of the Day archive (February through July 2003), go to Archive. Poets in various countries and cities and conditions are arranging for formal, public presentations of the poems to various governments and organizations. For such presentations, we recommend the follow packet of materials, which you can download from the web site December, 2006 Ed Higgins, Age 64, Yamhill, Or, Epistemology Jessie O'Neil, Age 21, private G. Karl Marcus, Age 53, Stopping For Pelicans On A Summer Evening November, 2006 Alexandra Kostoulas, Age 26, San Francisco, CA, Mourning a Dead Sparrow Catherine Wiley, Age 45, If Nothing Breaks Christine Timm, Terrorize Me October, 2006 Rohitash Chandra, Age 22, Fiji "Recipe for Unity and Freedom" Valentina Gnup, Age 48, US "Baghdad Ghazal" September, 2006 Faycal Zouaoui, Age 28 "No one listens" Jeanne Watson, Age 54 "now. . . to baghdad and today's violence" Yasmine Elaine Waring, "The Last Lullaby (for Lebanon)" Shahram Vahdany, Age 45 "Saviors" Kathy Engel, "Warning" August, 2006 Seymour Joseph, 77 "Shadow on a Wall" Margaret Eaton, "Battle of Britain Remembered" Catherine Anderson, 52 "Lessons" G. Karl Marcus, 53 "Conundrum" June, 2006 Helen Hensley, 51 "God Bless Our Troops - Microfridge in Room " (Bryan, TX, 4/14/06) Jane Haladay, 45 "Bloom" (Davis, CA, 4/14/2006) Shadab Zeest Hashmi, 33 "U.S. Air Strikes " (5/2/2006) Michael Hillmer , 53 "Down in the Hole " (Granite City, IL 5/18/2006) Claudia Chapline, 75 "Eclipse, (an early poems from the 1960's) " (5/19/2006) MTC Cronin, 42 "Dirty Foreign Laundry Policy" (Austrailia 2/22/2006) Joop Bersee, "Soldier" (6/4/2006) Larry Bradley, "Occupations" (6/5/2006) Jim Bush, "I Remember...(On Memorial Day) " (6/6/2006) Olivia Macassey, 30 "Parade" (Auckland, NZ 5/8/2006) Florence Major, "For Those Returned from Iraq...At the Terminal" (4/14/2006) Reggie Marra, 48 "This Open Eye " (New Milford, CT 1/11/2006) April, 2006 Richard Bray, 39 "Spoils of Victory" (California, 5/28/06) Tess Glynn, 54 "Invisable Wound" (California, 4/9/2006) Gary Blankenship, "Return My Things:14 Lines from Gitmo"(6/1/2006) March, 2006 Tom Goff, 47, “ Soldier's Home '06 ” ( Carmichael CA, 1/28/06) Kenneth Goldfine, 40, “ The rise ” (12/19/05) Roy Schoenberg , 80,“ RETURNING CASUALTIES ” (3/3/06) LeAnne Howe , 51, "The List We Make" (Illinois, USA 3/26/06) Neil Deupree, 63, “ War is a leech ” (USA, 3/18/06)
Wednesday, May 20, 2005 Marilyn Krysl, 62, “Rafa: 2004” (Colorado, USA, 4/14/05) Pushpa Ratna Tuladhar, 54, “Another Falujjah” (Kathmandu, Nepal, 3/16/05) Amy Fugate, 22, “What if the War Came Home” (Indiana, USA, 4/4/05) Bobbi Dykema Katsanis, 33, Untitled (Seattle, Washington, USA, 4/28/05) Dean Walker, 38, “Ode To Marla Ruzicka” (Sebastapol, California, USA, 4/19/05) Allison Bernstein, 18, Untitled (Virginia, USA, 5/1/05) Christopher John Donato, 31, “The Wolf in White-man's Burden” (USA, 4/25/05) Jos Accapadi, 35, “Thoughts at 2 am” (Austin, Texas, USA, 4/5/05) R Knight, 13, Untitled (Somerset, UK, 4/8/05) Jim Bush, “How Does One Tell Them?” (4/8/05) danny workman, 16, “spring time” (Boca Raton, Florida, USA, 4/1/05) Tiffany Bowden, “The Big Payback--or Bounced Check” (Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, 3/29/05) Glenda Bailey-Mershon, 56, “ONLY HUMAN” (St. Augustine, Florida, USA, 4/8/05) Yvonne Bond, 62, "U S A" (New Mexico, USA, 4/18/05) Alan Addotto, 59, “Signs” and “Wonders” (Opelousas, Louisiana, USA, 4/8/05) Liza Singer, 15, “Dying Dreams” (5/9/05) Camilla Flintermann, 80, “War Zone” (Oxford, Ohio, 5/11/05) Robert Edmiston, “The Oil Thief” (Kellyville, Oklahoma, USA, 4/1/05) Wednesday, March 30, 2005 Bonnie Roberts, 53, “The Lord's Prayer for the ‘Right’” (Alabama, USA, 3/29/05) joel vega, 41, “The Fifth and Careful Season” (Netherlands, 3/14/05) Warren Anderson, 78, “The Next Folly of Man” (Kansas, USA, 3/20/05) Jim Bush, “Her Spanish Is Coming Back” (USA, 3/29/05) Hannah Adams, 14, “Remember” (Alaska, USA, 3/26/05) Siobhan Kolar, 36, “Good people” (3/11/05) Rene Dee, 59, “The Old Lie” and “The Real Thing” (Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom, 3/27/05) Christopher Ducharme, 23, “Racism On All Sides” [Statement] (Canada, 3/26/05) Ayser Elamin, 41, “My Iraqi Prayer” (Massachusetts, USA, 3/15/05) Lois Jones, 46, “Babylon” (California, USA, 3/18/05) Carol Graser, 43, “Pope Air Force Base, 1967” (New York, USA, 3/21/05) Connie Walle, 65, Untitled (Washington, USA, 3/19/05) Roy Schoenberg, 80, “Blood Money” (New York, USA, 3/20/05) Cathleen Daly, 40, “Papa Woodcutter” (California, USA, 2/25/05) jason wilkinson, 28, “Idiot For Rehire” (New York, USA, 3/21/05) Stanwood Walker, 41, “Caesar” (USA, 2/7/05) Richard Smyth, 40, “BOOT: SCULPTURE,” “BOOT-CAMP,” and “BOOT-STRAP” (Massachusetts, USA, 2/20/05) corey walker, 26, “spring's protest” (New Mexico, USA, 2/8/05) Thursday, March 10, 2005 Sarah Borsten, 19, “Those Boys” (USA, 3/9/05) Brian Boldt, 62, “Dear George” (California, USA, 3/5/05) Evan Burdette, 13, “My Father Was A Soldier,” “Beyond the Soldier,” “How could they kill them?” and “What is a War?” (New Jersey, USA, 3/5/05) Roy Schoenberg, 80, “WARS PAST” (New York, USA, 3/9/05) Theresa Dutcher, 28, “Bombies” (2/24/05) Roger Morris, 50, “collateral D.” (Wellington, New Zealand, 2/20/05) tim bellows, 44, “SMARTS” (3/4/05) Adam Perry, 24, “Condi Rice” (California, USA, 2/16/05) Gary Blankenship,
“Make
Your Own Headlines” (2/15/05) Mark Bernier, 52, “The War Century's Poets” (Texas, USA, 2/26/05) Stephanie Manning, 54, “At Day’s End” (California, USA, 3/7/05) Carmel Morse, 51, “Ninety Seconds” (Nebraska, USA, 3/5/05) Phil Dunn, 20, “Flag Of Amerikkkan$” (Pennsylvania, USA, 2/24/05) David Ray, “EYES WIDE OPEN” (Arizona, USA, 3/8/05) Gerald Hubbard, 66, “After The War” (Ohio, USA, 3/8/05) Tuesday, March 1, 2005 Dean Walker, 38, “Snipers” (California, USA, 2/8/05) Ken Belford, 59, “34 scandals” (BC, Canada, 2/21/05) Ershad Mazumder, 63, “Burning Blood” (Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2/20/05) Alan Jenkins, “Take a Moment, Wilfred Owen” and “She Explains PTSD in High School Forensics” (Wisconsin, USA, 2/5/03 and 2/21/05) Oritsegbemi Jakpa, “Cruel Deeds” (London, UK, 1/31/05) Howard Chadwick, 71, “NOT ANY MORE” and “WHEN DIPLOMACY WON’T WORK” (Washington, USA, 11/10/03 and 2/05/05) Paul Mallory, 26, “When I Try” (Michigan, USA, 2/17/05) Robin Vranicar, “I feel sorry for all those soldiers who are not sleeping...” and “hating everybody” [Statement of Conscience] (New Hampshire, USA, 2/6/05 and 2/23/05) julie walczesky, 41, “shopping for dinner in America” and “deeper than the truth” (South Carolina, USA, 8/12/04 and 6/23/04) Poet Isabella, “Haunting Questions” (Maryland, USA, 2/16/05) ntuthuko magangane, 30, “a hint” (Johannesburg, South Africa, 2/18/05) Taylor Tessmar, 12, “Our Lives” (Michigan, USA, 2/22/05) Tuesday, February 15, 2005 Al Zolynas, “Rearranging the Landscape” (California, USA, 2/5/05) Mari York, 29, “Lexicon” (Ohio and Kentucky, USA, 2/13/05) John Iceknife, “Screams Awake” (2/5/05) Brian Decourcy, 19, “The Place that has no end.” (New York, USA, 1/30/05) Claudia Finseth, 50, “February 13, 2003 (Invoking Auden and the Goddess)” (Washington, USA, 2/7/05) Kristen Flory, 30, “Driving from Hot Springs” (Texas, USA, 2/12/05) Jeremy Gosnell,
21, “Become
Forever” (2/2/05) Daniel Stafford, 41, “You Are NOT Alone...” (Illinois, USA, 2/5/05) Paul Kando, 66, “Remembering” (Hungary / Maine, USA, 1/19/05) Salvatore Galioto, 77, “George Bush N. 1's America” (California, USA, 2/9/05) Ray Hewitt, 34, “The Enemy” (NT, U.K., 2/14/05) Diana Morris Holguin, “Falling from Our Sky” (California, USA, 1/23/05) Thursday, February 3, 2005 Jibin Joseph, 20, “My brother……” (Kerala, India, 1/24/05) Warren Slesinger, 69, “HOUR-GLASS” (South Carolina, USA, 2/10/03) Lawrence Wray, 42, “Psalm on the City of Illimitable Sky” (Pennsylvania, USA, 1/21/05) Thomas Hubbard, 66, “Terrorists” (Washington, USA, 12/28/04) Pushpa Ratna Tuladhar, 54, “A Decrepit Map” (Kathmandu, Nepal, 1/17/05) Steven Siegelski, 13, “Peace” (1/29/05) Coralie Koonce, 72, “Sky Gods” (Arkansas, USA, 2/7/03) Ken Crump, 55, “Mishka” (Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, 1/10/05) Angela Idigo,
24, “Relics
of War” (Lagos Lagos, Nigeria, 1/14/05) Lyle Daggett, 50, “warrior” (Minnesota, USA, 1/26/05) ryan kelly, 22, “Untitled (1)” and “Untitled (2)” (USA, 1/31/05) Mark Koerber,
45, “Flowers
in Iraq” (USA, "where democracy is dead”, 1/27/05) Hickey Kelly-lee, “This is not my war” (Australia, 1/20/05) michael johnson, “Translator” (1/31/05) olga tikchonchuk,
17, “IN
THE CITY OF TOMBS” (Mogilevskiy
Region, Belarus, 1/23/05) Michael Sanders,
53, “Justin’s
Story” (Washington, USA, 1/18/05) Wednesday, January 26, 2005 Nimal Gunatilleke, 51, “Will You?” and “Promises to Keep” (Maryland, USA, 2/5/03 and 1/20/05) Joan E. Bauer, 57, “Collateral Damage” (Pennsylvania, USA, 1/1/05) Jay Ferguson, “The reason you won't ever live again.” (1/19/05) Marilyn Frith, “GLORY GROUND” (Ohio, USA, 1/17/05) Jefferson Carter, 61, “Civilians” (Arizona, USA, 1/4/05) Elizabeth Diaz, 16, “Blooded Everywhere” (Florida, USA, 1/13/05) Kath Anderson, 49, “This is not My: Pre-Christmas Dawn During the Deadly Ridiculous” (Texas, USA, 1/19/05) Abayomi Animashaun, 27, “Situation in the Country” (Nigeria/Nevada-USA, 1/8/05) Hedieh Sajadi, “peace” (Maryland, USA, 1/17/05) Mac Dunlop, 46, “BLOWN WORLD” (Bristol, UK, 1/17/05) G. Scott Deshefy, 50, “Iraq” (Connecticut, USA, 1/17/05) Kenneth Alden, 57, “Ypres” and “Hill 60 (Statement)” (Massachusetts, USA, 2/20/03 and 1/16/05) Marvin Borgman, 65, “Colors” (Alabama, USA, 1/23/05) G. Karl Marcus, 52, “Drinking in the Mill Creek, Coldest Day of the Year” (Montana, USA, 1/15/05) Ann Doro, 81, “ANOTHER DESERT STORM” (Florida, USA, 1/17/05) Laurie Schoeman, 28, “Route 22” (New York, USA, 1/9/05) Don Mathis, 52, “Support our Troops” (Texas, USA, 1/15/05) Sherman Pearl, 68, “RULES FOR VISITORS AT THE VETERANS' CEMETERY” (California, USA, 1/16/05) Monday, January 17, 2005 Lyn Aydelette, 76, “a comment” (North Carolina, USA, 1/15/05) Ed Taylor, “Early Morning, Veteran's Day” (New York, USA, 1/16/05) James Sedwick, 57, “SOLDIER, SAY WHAT YOU NEED TO SAY” (New York, USA, 1/10/05) D.H. MELHEM, “Delivering Mail in Fallujah” (New York, USA, 1/16/05) Alice Blumenfeld, 14, “War” (1/8/05) Valerie Sanfilippo, “Kerry Won” (Statement of Conscience) (California, USA, 1/10/05) David Bayless, “John Steinbeck Died” and “Follow the Red River” (1/16/05) Ann White Haggett, 71, “Face of War” (Montana, USA, 1/16/05) Allen Tullos, 54, “Reading the Contrails” (Georgia, USA, 1/15/05) kathleen mannozzi, “History” (Italy, 1/16/05) Morgan Baker, 11, “The war with people” (Barrie, Canada, 1/15/05) William J. Jackson, 61, “Martyrs for a Leader's Cause” (Indiana, USA, 1/16/05) Peter Buttross, 56, “ANATOMY OF THE QUESTION: A BLEEDING” and “Blessed are….” (Mississippi, USA, 1/17/05) Henry Swain, 84, “Hidden Presence” (Indiana, USA, 1/16/05) Christina Pacosz, 56, “Unspeakable” (Missouri, USA, 11/15/04) Timothy Fichtner, 39, “Nut Pine” (California, USA, 1/1/05) Tuesday, January 11, 2005 Ann Struthers Jr., 70, “The Limits of Poetry” (Sri Lanka, 2/5/03) angele jeandenand,
17, “if
i could tell you” (Bangkok, Thailand, 10/25/04) James Penha, 56, “RESONANCE” (Jakarta, Indonesia, 2/4/03) Raymond Thibodeaux,
38, “A
Kind of Blinding” (Nairobi, Kenya, 2/17/03) Bissme S, 36, “Young Boy At War” (Malaysia, 10/14/04) Ershad Mazumder,
63, “Heaven
of Fire” (Dhaka, Bangladesh, 8/11/03) Edward Chua, 27, “Killing Field” (Petaling Jaya Selangor, Malaysia, 10/7/04) Tathagata Chatterjee,
“You
& I” (Kolkata, India, 12/1/04) Paige Chia, 28, “Widow of Courage” (Kuala Lumpur Federal Territory, Malaysia, 11/7/03) Tuesday, December 28, 2004 Andres Castro, 46, “I Celebrate The Poets” (New York, USA, 12/11/04) Christopher
Michael Cloos,
27, “Bald
Eagle” (Colorado, USA, 2/21/03) Ibrahiam Eljohainy, 36, “Proud with a half life” (Ismalia, Egypt, 12/25/04) Kristopher Barney, 17, “man is his only true enemy” (Arizona, USA, 12/25/04) Rhiannon Asher, 53, “In the Cradle of Civilization” (Kansas, USA, 10/23/04) Lawrence
Sorkin, 52, “There
Are Gods” and “Ten Hours East” (North Carolina, USA, 2/12/03) Arturo Valdez Castro, 24, “THE LAST TABLET” (Distrito Federal, Mexico) Anthony
Tripi, “OLD
LIES” (California, USA, 12/27/04) Andres
Sebastian Besserer, 16,
“From
distant landscapes...” (Mexico City, Mexico, 2/14/03) Dellana Diovisalvo,
30, “Before”
(Massachusetts, USA, 10/31/03) Karen Corcoran Dabkowski, 53, “No Giants” and “Blood in the Mouth” (Pennsylvania, USA, 10/16/04 and 12/27/04) Erin
Farrell Salva, 45,
“Name
your Enemy” (Ohio, USA, 2/11/03) Monday, December 20, 2004 Paul Bamberger, 58, “War Story” (New Hampshire, USA, 2/5/03) Charles Ellenbogen,
34, “Flight”
(Maryland, USA, 1/26/04) Akane Murasaki, 47, “The steel snow” (Tokyo, Japan, 2/16/03) Thomas Scheff, 74, “A Wake on the Beach” and “Report to Fox News” (California, USA, 12/20/04 and 9/24/03) Ntamack serge,
21, “ORPHAN'S
LAMENT” (Cameroon, 7/30/04) Salil Biswas, 57, “Flowers for Ali” (West Bengal, India, 12/16/04) Justice S. Stewart, 46, “Crosses Bright” (Georgia, USA, 7/26/04) Joseph Pacheco, 74, “And That's The Quarrel, Helen” (Florida, USA, 11/19/04) Ian Saki, 39, “BECKY DOWN WIND” (California, USA, 12/20/04) Diane Comer,
40, “What
We Carry” (Idaho, USA, 2/15/03) Charles Elliott, “Execution” (California, USA, 8/12/03) John Gillis, 59, “Light” (California, USA, 12/20/04) Gabriel Deckert, 13, “Am I…” (USA, 12/15/04) Papa Osmubal, 35, “THE KING: A PARABLE” (Macau, China, 12/18/04) G. Karl Marcus, 52, “Magnetic Ribbons and the Yellow Cake of Faith” (Montana, USA, 12/15/04) Cole Becks, 24, “For time is short” (Kansas, USA, 12/14/04) Monday, December 13, 2004 Lauri Brown, 30, “Baghdad Breathes” (Minnesota, USA, 12/10/04) Aja Rajendran, 25, “I had an Iraqi friend” (Texas, USA, 12/10/04) Hal Bogotch, 45, “ICE FISHING” (California, USA, 12/13/04) Tom Williams, “Mother Of All Bombs” and “By The Numbers” (12/10/04) Hannah Moynihan, 12, “Fighting What?” (Ireland, 12/12/04) Gene Grabiner, “the beginning of the ‘NO’” (12/12/04) Bill Costley, 61, “ANOTHER Quiet American,” “2 ANXIOUS Ambassadors,” and Untitled (Massachusetts, USA, 2/22/03-10/03/04) Kirby Wright, 45, “Just Before the War” (California, USA, 12/8/04) Patrick Daly, 56, “The Cleanup” (California, USA, 12/7/04) Monday, December 6, 2004 Josey Foo, “Scribble” (New Mexico, USA, 11/26/04) Lauren Gross, “JAW BONE REVISITED” (Pennsylvania, USA, 11/12/04) M'fanwy Dean, “live don’t kill” and “peace [Statement of Conscience]” (Alaska, USA, 11/30/04) Ashley McBride, “Quiet times” (Ohio, USA, 10/23/04) Melissa E. Ferguson, “Mother District” (Maryland, USA, 11/11/04) Janet Aalfs, “LINES ON A MAP” (Massachusetts, USA, 10/18/04) Gloria Gordon, “FOREIGN INSPECTORS SEARCH FOR WEAPONS OF MASS SELF-DESTRUCTION” and “Imaginary History of an Undiscovered Planet” (Missouri, USA, 2/9/03 and 9/9/04) Marilyn Wienk, “Fallujah” (New York, USA, 12/2/04) Carrie Comer, “Distance from the War” (Florida, USA, 10/22/04) Joanne Rocky Delaplaine,
“News
of The War, October 2004” (Maryland, USA, 11/11/04) Kabir Suman, “On Reading An Anti-War Poem” (West Bengal, India, 12/1/04) Ranjini Chatterjee, “Rest in peace…” (Kolkata, India, 2/28/03) Sunday, November 28, 2004 Rafe Pilgrim, “Arms,
the Boy, and Gunga Din” (Florida, USA, 11/13/04) Mary C O’Malley, “Lessons from Korea” and “The Gift of Stolen Fire” (Ohio, USA, 11/21/04) Argelia Roman, “Have you ever killt anyone before?” (USA, 11/27/04) Veronica Pamoukaghlian, “Baghdad on fire” and “THE WEDDING” (Montevideo, Uruguay, 11/6/04) Matthew Williams, “Freedom Dance” (New Hampshire, USA, 11/11/04) Sunday, November 21, 2004 Stephen Capaldi, “Operation Iraqi Liberation” (Pennsylvania, USA, 11/15/04) Elizabeth Bridgland, “Waiting” (West Midlands, U.K., 11/18/04) Greg Watson, “Elsewhere” (Minnesota, USA, 11/21/04) Kip Williams, “God Bless America” (Tennessee, USA, 11/5/04) Emily Dimov-Gottshall, “Black birds fly against a stone gray sky” (Pennsylvania, USA, 11/4/04) Joanne Delaplaine, “News of The War, October 2004” (Maryland, USA, 11/11/04) Dmytro Drozdovsky, “Against War” (Odessa, Ukraine, 10/30/04) Deirdre Johnston, “In the Court of The Jester Prince” (North Carolina, USA, 10/29/04) Sverre Aune, “Appeal” (Ohio, USA, 10/27/04) Kirsten Brooks, “here is what i know about war” (Manitoba, Canada, 11/10/04) Donna Frisk, “Across the Waterway from the Glass Museum” (Washington, USA, 10/31/04) Richard
Wells, “Diogenes
Once Sighted Must Go Blind” (Pennsylvania / Texas, USA, 11/19/04) christie scott, “just” (California, USA, 11/15/04) Tuesday, November 2, 2004 John Brandi,
”Letter
From Kathmandu” and “Song of the Red River” (New Mexico, USA, 2/6/03
and 2/13/03) Feiruz
Shehadi, “The
Burning Bush” (Illinois, USA, 2/17/03) Troy Morgan, “My M-16 gently weeps...” (U.S. Military, Middle East, 10/29/04) Walt Abbott, “Moon Base” (Arizona, USA, 2/24/03) Deema Shehabi, “Migrant Earth” (Palestine / California, USA, 10/30/04) Ron Antonucci, “war words” and “Needlework” (Ohio, USA, 2/26/03 and 11/14/03) Jonathan Cohen, “WALT
WHITMAN IN OHIO”
(New York, USA) Dave Bonta, “Capturing
the Hive,” “Dispatches
From a Target-Rich Environment,” and “From a Distance”
(Pennsylvania, USA, 2/14/03, 8/8/03, and 7/24/04) Rusty McKenzie, “WE THE PEOPLE” (Wisconsin, USA, 10/16/04) Doretta Wildes, “Easter” (Connecticut, USA, 10/28/04) terrie shattuck, “The Prophet” (Washington, USA, 10/29/04) Roger Aplon, “What We Will Not Know," "Contraband,” and “Dead Pigeon” (Barcelona, Spain; 2/11/03, 2/23/03, and 8/7/04) Cole akins, “Peace” (Washington, USA, 10/25/04) Shaun Griffin, “Those Below Clouds” (Nevada, USA) Pamela Johnson, “1000 Gone” (Colorado, USA, 9/18/04) Adam Bradley, “For
George Bush” (New Hampshire, USA, 10/8/04) Beth Cortez-Neavel, “For Death The Enemies Will Desecrate From” (Texas, USA, 10/31/04) Susan McKeon-Steinmann, “I am still on my corner in Patchogue” and “We march to the polls singing solidarity forever” (New York, USA, 10/4/04 and 11/1/04) Sunday, October 24, 2004 Kristie Donohue, “The last letter: A soldier's wife” (New York, USA, 10/20/04) Geoffrey Gardner, Statement of Conscience and “Slaughter”; “Plain Poem: My Field and My Friend” (poems by Jules Supervielle; translator, Geoffrey Gardner, New Hampshire, USA; 2/4/03 and 10/11/04) Joe Adams, “Walter Reed Hospital” (Pennsylvania, USA, 9/23/04) Cassandra Jennings, “American Soldiers” (Missouri, USA, 10/24/04) Linda Young, “Emptied” and “Election Days” (New York, USA, 10/23/04) Rhiannon Asher, “In the Cradle of Civilization” (Kansas, USA, 10/23/04) stan gartler, Statement of Conscience: The Sanctity of Life (Washington, USA, 10/24/04) Janet Aalfs, “Citizen of a Superpower Sits At Abd El-Hadi's Table” and “LINES ON A MAP” (Massachusetts, USA, 10/18/04) Stephanie Bordeaux, “Spinning” (Rosebud Reservation, South Dakota, USA, 2/15/03) Candy Hamilton, “Baby Brat” (Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota, USA, 2/18/03) Diane Comer, “What We Carry” (Idaho, USA, 2/15/03) Carrie Comer, “Distance from the War” (Florida, USA, 10/22/04) robert edmiston, “The Dead Ones” (Oklahoma, USA, 8/6/04) clint Van Winkle, “Return to Sender” (Arizona, USA, 10/19/04) Salil Biswas, “To Die For,” “You and I,” and “Description of a Sculpture Seen in a Museum” (West Bengal, India, 10/23/04) Frank Finale, “AFTER THE WAR” and THE SUITCASES” (New Jersey, USA, 2/5/03 and 10/22/04) Stewart S. Warren, “A Newer Map” (Colorado, USA; 10/19/04) george williams, “Allah, Buddha...God Too” and “Fear Oh Four” (Massachusetts, USA, 10/19/04) vinni
marie d'ambrosio, “Not
- Poem: September 2001” (New York, USA, 9/11/04) Jeanette Loehr, “A Draft Of History” (Washington, USA, 10/24/04) Russell Arquette, “Our Nightmare has just Begun” (Florida, USA, 10/19/04) Sunday, October 17, 2004 taylor parson, “the cured” (North Carolina, USA, 10/16/04) Buland al-Haidary, “Old Age” (Iraq, 2/19/03) David Biespiel, “Civilization in the Next War” (Oregon, USA, 2/4/03) Karen Corcoran Dabkowski, “No Giants” (Pennsylvania, USA, 10/16/04) john gilgun, “After the War” and “Psychosis Masquerading as Civilization” (Missouri, USA, 5/14/04 and 9/10/04) Betty Dresser, “A Thousand Faces From the NYTimes on September 9, 2004” (Connecticut, USA, 9/26/04) Hadi Mohammadzadeh, “Exploding the grenade in windows” (Iran, 10/16/04) Tony Iantosca, “Despair at Abu Ghraib” (Virginia/Vermont, USA, 8/31/04) Vince Gotera, “Guard Duty” and “Love in the Time of Al Qaeda” (Iowa, USA, 2/9/03 and 9/21/03) Bissme S, “Young Boy at War” (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 10/14/04) Jacqueline D'Agostino, “Poem for a Sister” and “A Sense of Security” (Massachusetts, USA, 10/15/04) Howard Faerstein, “Cross Country Drive at Fifty Five” (New Mexico, USA, 9/24/03) J.R. Solonche, “Watching the War” (New York, USA, 10/12/04) Jeannine Savard, “Communal Veterans” (Arizona, USA, 10/1/04) Linda D. Pratt, “Buried” (10/17/04, New York, USA) Michael Irwin, “almond trees” (California, USA, 10/10/04) Joseph Phelan, “Love Poem” (New York, USA, 10/10/04) Tim Staley, “Inside Job” (Oklahoma/New Mexico, USA, 11/24/03) Nicoletta Crocella, “1 Diversi – Rete” (Viterbo, Italy, 2/5/04) Michael Estabrook, “Jimmy told me” (Massachusetts, USA, 10/16/04) Margaret von Steinen, “Shield” (Michigan, USA, 4/5/04) anne chauvin, “Sometimes they cry” (Albi Tarn, France, 10/6/04) Sunday, October 10, 2004 Gerri Jardine, “Called Up” and “War Clothes” (South Dakota, USA, 10/7/04) Lucie McKee, “What Happens to Crowds” (Vermont, USA, 9/15/04) Gloria Gordon, “Imaginary History of an Undiscovered Planet” (Missouri, USA, 9/9/04) Margarita Engle, “Burden, a prose poem” (California, USA, 10/6/04) Sunday, October 3, 2004 In memory of Virginia Adair (1913-2004) johnson vdev, “If this is peace” and “Prejudice to none” (Kerala, India, 9/23/04) Jeannine Savard, “Gathering Intelligence Where You Are” and “Communal Veterans” (Arizona, USA, 8/10/03 and 10/1/04) Colleen J. McElroy, “WHAT THEY DON'T TELL YOU ABOUT WAR” (Washington, USA, 10/2/04) Sarah Gahan, “The War On War” (California, USA, 9/15/04) Benjamin Stewart, “The Tear” (10/1/04) Nermine Prusecki, “A simple question” (New Jersey, USA, 9/23/04) Everett Peck, “Jorge Butch” and “A Vine of Sorts” (Texas, USA, 9/6/04 and 10/2/04) Donna Marie Timney, “Conventional Wisdom” (Pennsylvania, USA, 9/22/04) Thao Vu Thanh, “CRY” (Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, 8/26/04) Sally Shaw, “Indivisible”
(Massachusetts, USA, 9/18/04) Jennifer Simon, “untitled” (Ohio, USA, 9/26/04) Shonnon Guest, “Vision Lost” (California, USA, 7/29/04) Mario Savioni, “Horse Whisperer” (California, USA. 9/21/04) Roy Schoenberg, “WHY SOLDIERS DIE” (New York, USA, 9/22/04) Josey Foo, “Beads,” “Sweep,” and “Revolution” (New Mexico, USA, 8/15-8/21/04) Wednesday, September 15, 2004 Lee Bramble, “Triptych Fragment,” “Lamentation,” and “Aubade” (Guilford, Vermont, USA, 9/11/04) Colleen J. McElroy, “Teaching G.I.s to Dance” (Seattle, Washington, USA, 9/11/04) Leon Petrus, “Counterfeits
in Springtime” (New York, New York, USA, 9/11/04) Kurt Dudt, “1st Battalion 5th Marines” (Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA, 5/13/04) osakpolor irusota, “EXPECTATION” (Benin City, Nigeria, 8/13/04) Beenish Akhtar, “The Mirror Messenger” (Virginia, USA, 9/10/04) Arlene Kim, “Anthem” (Seattle, Washington, USA, 9/11/04) Franci Louann, “FEBRUARY 13, 1991 ( A VALENTINE FOR THE WESTERN WORLD)” and “TWO WEEKS BEFORE 9/11” (Vancouver, B.C., Canada, 9/12/04) Catherine Alber, “Spring” (Denver, Colorado, USA, 9/10/04) Blaise Allen, “Today’s Terror Alert” (Boca Raton, Florida, USA, 9/11/04) Mary Pitt, “At the Tomb of the Unknowns” (Yates Center, Kansas, USA, 9/11/04) Virginia atkinson, “NOT IN MY NAME, DONALD RUMSFELD” (Rockport, Massachusetts, USA, 9/10/04) Wednesday, September 1, 2004 Shoja Adel, “You Were Told” (California, USA, 8/18/04) Tashina Marie, “Where is the beauty you promised?” (Pennsylvania, USA, 7/30/04) john felstiner, “Do
You Know Who the President Is? (6/30/04) Lucie McKee, “Two Windows” (Vermont, USA, 7/29/04) Joe Aimone, “Not Another Exquisite Corpse” (California, USA, 8/14/04) Anam Majeed, “A Portraiture of War” (Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 8/3/04) Sylvia Salinas, “Enough” (9/1/04) Lin McNulty, “Worn Torn” (Washington, USA, 8/11/04) Wednesday, August 11, 2004 Hassan Sani, “Oh My Home” (Garki Abuja, Nigeria, 7/10/04) Kelle Groom, “What They Said” and “Gulf” (Florida, USA, 5/29/04-8/2/04) Shoja Adel, “The
Torch,” “Thorn in My Heart,” and “Who Stole my Sorrow”
(California, USA; 10/31/03-8/4/04) Jane Mikoni, “The Garden of War” (Pennsylvania, USA, 8/10/04) Ershad Mazumder, “A Wartime Coffin” (Dhaka, Bangladesh, 8/11/04) Guy Nasuti, “Graffiti Bombs” and “In Memory of Dwayne Williams-Lost At Sea” (West Virginia, USA, 8/5/04) kathleen mannozzi, “War Games” and “Veteran” (USA, 8/11/04) Wednesday, August 4, 2004 Dave Bonta, “Capturing the Hive,” “Dispatches from a Target-Rich Environment,” and “From a Distance” (Tyrone, Pennsylvania, USA, 4/18/03-7/24/04) K. Krieger, “Minutes” (Washington, D.C., USA, 7/21/2004) Rishma Dunlop, “Slow Burn (forthcoming in 'Reading Like a Girl')” (Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 7/21/04) Lori Ann Day, “Let’s
Create a Monster” (Watsonville, California, USA, 6/26/04) Mark Zimmermann, “President with Bullhorn” (Elblag, Poland, 3/12/04) Wednesday, July 7, 2004 julie walczesky, “deeper than the truth” (South Carolina, USA, 6/23/04) Robert Ward, “For Javal Davis & Ivan Frederick” (Massachusetts, USA, 6/5/04) John Gilgun, “Soldiers Home” (Missouri, USA, 7/3/04) Michael Estabrook, “heaven and earth,” “He Was Staring At Something,” “Philosophizing Beneath the Trees,” “Helicopter,” and “BUSH VETS” (Massachusetts, USA, 2/29/04-7/3/04) Zoje Stage, “I See You” and “Five Seconds in Falluja (parts 1 & 2)” (New York, USA, 5/4/04-7/4/04) Cor van Schaik, “MULTIPLE
CHOICE” and “ANSWER
TO WAR” (Woensdrecht, Netherlands, 8/8/03 and 6/25/04) Monday, June 21, 2004 Albert Alessi, “wine barrels” (Vermont, USA, 5/31/04) Cleve Pile, “What Is Life” (Delaware, USA, 5/31/04) Morgan Guyton, “Babylon Bleeds” (Michigan, USA, 2/17/03) Yusra Al Ayoubi, “Give Me Another Day” (Damascus, Syria, 6/20/04) Jacqueline D’Agostino, “Hummer Envy” (Massachusetts, USA, 6/20/04) Maddie Guy, “The Lost Battle” (Texas, USA, 6/15/04) lawrence alfred powell, “shrub (ode to a small bush)” (Mona Kingston, Jamaica, 6/6/04) Justice Stewart, “Guns of Grief” (Georgia, USA, 5/14/04) Karen Button, “Abu Ghraib and Beyond: Ode to American Empire” (Alaska, USA, 6/12/04) irwin wingo, “all the news” (Texas, USA, 6/4/04) Kelley White, “No, Lawrence” (Pennsylvania, USA, 5/30/04) Tuesday, June 14, 2004 Kelle Groom, “What
They Said” (Florida, USA, 5/29/04) Ron Adams, “The best I could do” (Pennsylvania, USA, 6/7/04) Amanda Hart Cravotta,
“No
Intelligence Here” (Virginia, USA, 6/14/04) April Fitzsimmons, “Let me get this straight” (California, USA, 5/29/04) Anthony Tripi, “Old War Poem for Our Time,” “Dying Young,” and “Crow’s Words” (California, USA, 2/11/03-5/22/04) Alexis Santi, “When We Fought With Radicals” (Virginia, USA, 6/9/04) Robert Brown, “war haiku” (Michigan, USA, 6/10/04) Mark Ellsworth, “War at Peace” (Massachusetts, USA, 5/29/04) Ginamarie Gasiewski-Reading,
“Turnkey
Woman” (New Jersey, USA, 5/28/04) Sara Ballouz, “politico” (6/1/04) kate berrien, “a concise discourse on the end of the world” (6/10/04) Thomas Schott, “The Oldest Living Thing in Baghdad” (4/27/04) Brad Elliott, “Sun” (5/21/04) David Krieger, “WORSE THAN THE WAR” (California, USA, 6/4/04) Sunday, June 6, 2004 omosun sylvester, “echoes of the gulf” (Lagos State, Nigeria, 6/2/04) john guzlowski, “What the War Taught Her” (Georgia, USA, 5/14/04) Symonds Guy, “Bush
was not my choice” (New Mexico, USA, 5/9/04) Tom Goff, “Abu Ghraib” (California, USA, 5/21/04) David L. Wallace, “Go Ahead and Bomb Baghdad” and “Best Place for a Missile Silo” (Montana, USA, 5/20/04) Shoja Adel, “Thorn in My Heart” and “Who Stole my Sorrow” (California, USA, 10/31/03 and 5/20/04) Ernie Wormwood, “American Female Soldier With Nude Arab On A Leash” (Maryland, USA, 5/15/04) Qwo-Li Driskill, “Snapshot” (Washington, USA, 5/19/04) Catherine Wallace, “Today” (Minnesota, USA, 4/29/04) Chris Floyd, “See Rome” and “untitled" (5/7/04) Kurt Dudt, “1st Battalion 5th Marines” (Pennsylvania, USA, 5/13/04) Monday, May 17, 2004 Ibrahiam Awd, “crying” (Ismalia, Egypt, 5/7/04) Larry Matsuda, “I Therapy,” “II Knot,” “III Burial at Washelli Cemetery” (Washington, USA, 5/4/04) Deborah Stoddard, “Target Triangle Frames” (5/7/04) Shirley Shatsky, “Sometimes I Worry” (California, USA, 4/12/04) Mary Kennedy (Kyriakou), “untitled” (Australia, 5/10/04) T.J. Sellari, “Oil” (5/10/04) Monday, May 10, 2004 Shia Tukino, “Lullaby of tenderness” (Japan, 4/23/04) Mary Felstiner, “Bake Sale for Democracy” (California, USA, 5/1/04) john brennan, “tyranny” (U.K., 5/7/04) Ian Saki, “Pure Simple,” “This Morning,” “INCARNATE,” and “THE BIKER” (California, USA, 2/16/04-4/29/04) Reynolds Dixon, “Half Life” (4/23/04) Brian DeCourcy, “Ringing Church Bells and Rotting Dead” and “We do no more than Expected” (New York, USA, 1/29/04 and 5/5/04) Zoje Stage, “Five Seconds in Falluja (parts 1 & 2)” (New York, USA, 5/4/04) Lin McNulty, “Untitleable” and “The Last Peace Full Moon” (Washington, USA, 8/10/03 and 4/27/04) Friday, April 30, 2004 Joan Maiers, “Reservoir” (Oregon, USA, 2/25/03) Jason Michael Anderson, “Generals” (Monterey, California, 4/25/04) María Luisa Arroyo, “U.S. Soldiers Accused of Abuse” (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 4/25/04) Gerrolynne Moreno,
“Eat
Your Peas” and “They
Took” (California, USA, 4/20/04) David Keefer, “Spring All Over Again” (Massachusetts, USA, 4/1/04) Wednesday, April 21, 2004 hatto fischer, “What it takes” (Athens, Greece, 4/15/04) Carolyne Wright, “Victor Jara (1932-1973)” and “Shock and Awe” (Oklahoma, USA, 8/12/03) J. Glenn Evans, “CHILDREN OF THE STONES” (Washington, USA, 4/10/04) Madan Gopal Gandhi, “MY PART OF THE SIN” and “HOLOCAUST REHEARSALS” (New Delhi, India, 2/7/04 and 4/16/04) ADELA-ADRIANA MOSCU, “THE CIRCLE OF PEACE ( IN 4 LANGUAGES )” (USA, 4/16/04) Joan Kimball, “EASTERN JUNGLE” and “PALM OIL” (Massachusetts, USA, 2/20/03) Wednesday, April 14, 2004 Martin Steingesser, “I
KEEP THINKING OF YOU, VICTOR JARA” and “BROTHER” (Maine, USA, 2/5/03) Kerry McDonald, “Akhmatova” and “On Carl Sandburg’s” (Connecticut, USA, 4/13/04) Lewis Grupper, “Terror” (New York, USA, 4/1/04) shaheen fatima, “No blood shed, no bombing, no war” (India, 4/10/04)’ Kaoru Kobashi, “The
season of bombs” (Japan, 8/3/03) Tuesday, April 13, 2004 Kirby Wright, “Observations from Oceanside” (Hawaii, USA, 4/11/04) Patrick Byrt, “Ah Lys!” (Adelaide, Australia, 4/12/04) Monday, April 12, 2004 SangKe, “Baghdad Child, 02/1991” (China, 3/29/03) Matt Koegler, “Understanding #2” (Michigan, USA, 4/10/04) Sunday, April 11, 2004 Tamra Amato, “Marines
Memorial Hotel, San Francisco, Easter 1999”
(California, USA, 2/14/03) Nancy Canyon, “Easter Dinner for Sgt. Bruce Virgil Shanks, Marine Corp (deceased)” Jorrie
Miller, “Watching
the NATO Planes Above Brussels (Easter 1999)” (Minnesota, USA, 2/28/03) Mark
Folse, “Easter
2003” (North Dakota, USA, 2/12/03) Saturday, April 10, 2004 David Campbell, “At
the UN: Weapons Inspector, Secretary General” (Maine, USA, 4/9/04) Mary Kennedy (Kyriakou), “untitled” (Australia, 4/8/04) Friday, April 9, 2004 Patrick Archibeque, “THE COST OF FREEDOM” (New Mexico, USA, 4/8/04) Reynolds Dixon, “Shadowfall” (4/8/04) Robert Godwin, “If Left Up To The Soldiers” (Washington, USA, 4/8/04) Thursday, April 8, 2004 In celebration of our friends in Athens today: Katherina Anghelaki-Rooke,
“13th
Day, or Now on land!” and “14th
Day, or the abolition of inner space” (Athens Greece, 4/7/04) Wednesday, April 7, 2004 Jennifer Boyden,
“Laying
Them Down, Telling Them Rest” (Washington, USA, 4/6/04) Tuesday, April 6, 2004 Steve Bell, “Three Haiku (comments on the war in Iraq)” (Colorado, USA, 3/14/04) Mary Beth Daniels, “Andante: The Soldier” (Massachusetts, USA, 4/3/04) Monday, April 5, 2004 Toshio Whelchel, “Cold Dreams of Hell” (California, USA, 4/1/04) Ratna Pal, “Some times when i thought....!” (Kanpur Uttar Pradesh, India, 4/1/04) Sunday, April 4, 2004 Farideh Kheradmand, “Happy New Year” (British Columbia, Canada, 4/1/04) Ronnie Goodyer, “Lower Town,” “War Games,” and “Allegorical Birds Feed In My Garden.” (Cornwall, U.K., 8/8/03-4/1/04) Friday, April 2, 2004 Karen
Boyden, “Political
Silence” (New Mexico, USA, 4/1/04) carrie
attley, “Shed
a tear” (4/1/04) Thursday, April 1, 2004 John
McKevitt, “Jericho”
(Pennsylvania, USA, 3/30/04) Joel
Young, “Lessen
Your Day (For George and the people of Spain)” (Florida, USA, 3/31/04) Wednesday, March 31, 2004 Parul
Saxena, “America”
and “Repeat it” (Tennessee, USA, 12/4/03 & 2/24/04) james
wood, “Good-bye
of The Damned” (Hawaii, USA, 3/25/04) Tuesday, March 30, 2004 Gertrude
Halstead, “today”
(Massachusetts, USA, 2/8/03) doren
robbins, “EARLY
21ST CENTURY OF NOAH” (California, USA, 2/15/03) Monday, March 29, 2004 Liz
Minette, “the
inside window’s” (Minnesota, USA, 3/27/04) Mary
Hofer, “The
Walls go up, The Walls come down,” (Washington, USA, 3/23/04) Sunday, March 28, 2004 kerry
pardue, “A
Time of War…A Time of Peace” (Arizona, USA, 3/26/04) Tom
Goff, “Marines”
(California, USA, 3/27/04) Saturday, March 27, 2004 David
Austin, “Collateral
Damage” (New Jersey, USA, 2/22/03) Minerva
Bloom, “Smoked
Profile: Perfil Humeante (bilingual poem)” (Florida, USA, 3/16/04) Wednesday, March 24, 2004 Marty
Mulligan, “Changing
World” (Ireland, 3/15/04) Robert
Rini, “Counting”
(2/13/03) and “Addressing
the Ball” (2/11/03) (Washington, USA) Tuesday, March 23, 2004 Annie
Gustin, "faces
faded (Nagasaki Remembrance Day, 2003)” (Connecticut, USA, 2/24/04) Tobias
Deckert, “My
Friend Is Going to War” (USA, 1/17/04) Monday, March 22, 2004 Annette
Allen, “Written
on the Anniversary of the War in Iraq, March 2004” (Iowa, USA, 3/21/04) marty
abuloc, “PFC
Costales, Army” (Antipolo, Philippines, 3/21/04) Sunday, March 21, 2004 Dana
Pattillo, “Vietnam
War Memorial, Washington, October 11, 2002” Kerry
Zagarella, “The
Count Down” (Massachusetts, USA, 2/04/03) Saturday, March 20, 2004 Ronnie
Goodyer, “War
Games” (Cornwall, U.K., 3/19/04) Peggy
Sapphire, “Can
Not” (Vermont, USA, 3/19/04) Friday, March 19, 2004 Chloe
Kurabi, “war…..”
(Madrid, Spain, 2/11/03) José
Luis Rodríguez Burgoa,
“EL
SUEÑO DEL ARCO IRIS” (Madrid, Spain, 2/17/03) Peter
Adel, “Fallen”
(California, USA, 3/17/04) Thursday, March 18, 2004 John
Streamas, “THREE
WARS” (Washington, USA, 3/16/04) Wednesday, March 17, 2004 Alec Emerson, “World Trade Center” (New York, USA, 2/17/03) Aftab
Yson, “Man
or Animal” (Mumbai Maharashtra, India, 3/11/04) Tuesday, March 16, 2004 LauraL
Koenig, “Early
Morning Baghdad” and “In Like a Lamb Like a Lion” (Illinois, USA,
12/27/03 and 3/12/04) Mark
Cook, “The
Usual Metaphors” (Ohio, USA, 3/12/04) Monday, March 15, 2004 Barbara
Bowen, “Reconstructive
Surgery” (Washington, USA, 3/14/04) Steve
Bell, “Three
Haiku (comments on the war in Iraq)” (Colorado, USA, 3/14/04) Sunday, March 14, 2004 Susan Atefat-Peckham, “24 |
