Anthologies of Poems Against War from Around the World

Poets Against the War is part of, and helped to inspire, a series of interconnected movements. This spring has seen an outpouring of opposition to war from poets around the globe, and there have been many efforts to create anthologies of poetry to express that opposition. Here are a few of those projects.

Poets Against the War
An anthology published by Nation Books, selected from the 13,000 poems published on the poetsagainstthewar.org web site.

Washington DC Poets Against the War
D.C. Poets Against the War and Argonne House Press announce the publication of D.C. Poets Against the War: An Anthology, 41 anti-war poems by Washington-area poets, edited by Sarah Browning, Naomi Ayala, Michele Elliott, and Danny Rose. Called "an essential voice of conscience in a troubled time" by Poets Against the War founder Sam Hamill, D.C. Poets Against the War: An Anthology features poets, ages 10 to 80, who question, protest, and raise their voices against their government's war on Iraq. Presenting poets both new and established, this collection is in the tradition of our nation's great works of dissent and creative democracy. The anthology is available for purchase on the D.C. Poets Against the War web site at www.dcpaw.org and from Washington area bookstores such as Politics & Prose, the Writer's Center, Chapters Literary Bookstore, and Bridge Street Books.

Poets Against the War (Tho+ Cho^'ng Chie^'n Tranh) - Vietnam
More than 80 writers and poets inside & outside Vietnam have contributed to this anthology, which includes many new poems. Most of the poems in this online anthology are in Vietnamese.

Poeter Mot Krig - Sweden
This printed anthology of Swedish Poets Against the War will be published in Swedish in May and there will be readings in Malmoe and in Stockholm, and hopefully many more places in Sweden.

The Common Sky - Canadian Writers Against the War
This printed anthology of Canadian poets from Three Squares Press has a foreword by Alistair MacLeod. Profits will be donated to the Canadian Peace Alliance.

Poètes Contre la Guerre - France
L'édition de ce livre coïncide avec les manifestations pacifistes du 15 février. Partagez-le avec vos amis et vos collègues. Poètes contre la guerre was published to coincide with the 15 February antiwar demonstrations. Share it with your friends and colleagues.

Gedichte gegen den Krieg - Germany
Die deutschsprachige Version der Anthologie Gedichte gegen den Krieg im PDF-Format & als Druckvorlage zur Herstellung von Buchexemplaren.

100 poetas contra a guerra - Portugal
Se você quiser contribuir para a edição em português dos '100 poetas contra a guerra', por favor envie um e-mail para hiperfocus@yahoo.com.br

100 Poets Against the War (nthposition.com/)
Go to nthposition.com to see several different publications. 100 Poets against the war, 100 Poets against the war redux and 100 Poets against the war 3.0 were designed to be printed off, copied double-sided and distributed as chapbooks. All the contributors donated their poems, so download the book, share it, put it on your own site for others to share, and email it to friends and colleagues. (You'll need Adobe Acrobat to read them.) Note that '100 poets against the war' is unconnected to '101 poems against war' which Faber rush-published in late February 2003. All profits go to Amnesty International. You can buy it via Blackwell's USA and UK or Amazon in the UK, US or Canada. The details are: '100 poets against the war', Salt Publishing, ISBN: 1 876857 98 6. Cost: £9.95 (UK), $13.95 (US), $27.95 (Aus).

Oregon Poets Against the War
This will be a printed anthology of Oregon poets who appear on the poetsagainstthewar.org web site, with a foreword by Ursula Le Guin and Judith Barrington.

Poets Against the War - United Kingdom
Edited by Anth Ginn, this web site was one of the first to publish poems against the war in Iraq, and has some extraordinary and entertaining accounts of the poets' movement in Britain.

Poesia Salvaje - Spain
A collection of poems against the war by Spanish poets, published by an extraordinary online publication devoted to poetry and art.

Poems about War - Australia
This online anthology is published by the Poets Union of Australia.

Poets Against the War - Spanish-language, many countries.
Spanish-language poems published on the poetsagainstthewar.org web site.

Poets Against the War - Switzerland
These poems are published in French and German.

Pax Poeta - anthology in Norwegian
50 poets and writers have contributed to this non-profit book. The book is published by Det Norske Samlaget, and the money goes to Medicins Sans Frontieres (leger uten grenser). May be purchased at Haugen Bok.

Poetas Contra la Guerra
60 Spanish-speaking poets around the world.

Poem for Peace in Many Voices
Pendas Productions has published a two volume anthology of Poem for Peace in Many Voices, both book and cd, in sixty translations from around the world. Contact pendas@pennkemp.ca .