Contributors include: Adrienne Rich, W.S. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. He got 13,000 poems. And the distinctiveness of their voices. "Remarkable, lively collection . After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Most I'd never had heard of. He asked for submissions from other American poets and started getting thousands. Among this category are Joseph Zacardi's 'Search and Rescue,' Michael Wolfe's 'East of New York,' Leonore Wilson's 'Tomoko Uemura is Bathed by Her Mother,' and eight-year old Alexandra Indira Sanyal's untitled poem, all among several evocative and powerful writings. Unable to add item to List. Am very much opposed to war and the Iraq war in particular. Please try again. Words Not Spoken. I had several poems in this project. All opposing the Iraq war and war in general. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. Poets Against the War features a selection of the best poems that were submitted to the website. This is the second copy I have gotten. Know that your sister is here till the very end. The poems on the Poets Against the War web site were archived in 2010. Please keep this in mind as you read my earlier review, written last year: Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2007. Sam Hamill set up a website and invited all comers to submit a poem against the war. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2004. There was a problem loading your book clubs. After initially reviewing this compilation last year, I went back and read, or re-read, more of its poems. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2003. Poets Against the War was a global movement of poets that erupted in February, 2003, to protest the invasion of Iraq by the Bush administration. Poets Against the War was a global movement of poets that erupted in February, 2003, to protest the invasion of Iraq by the Bush administration. Know that you're loved, brother, uncle, son. And Mr. Hamill organized this book with some of the poems he had received. We got this book as a gift, and I was stunned by its power. Some of the poets and writers were long-time favorites: Adrienne Rich, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, WS Merwin, Mary Oliver, Terry Tempest Williams. None of them made it into this book, but I'm glad to have the spirit of peace so clearly in my poetry collection. Within a few weeks, the movement ballooned into an international phenomenon, with over 13,000 poets submitting their poetry to the web site to protest the war. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. So Mrs. Bush fired Mr.Hamill and organized her own event with long ago, safely dead American poets. Within a few weeks, the movement ballooned into an international phenomenon, with over 13,000 poets submitting their poetry to the web site to protest the war. Led by poet Sam Hamill, February 12, 2003 became a day of Poetry Against the War conducted as a reading at the White House gates in addition to over 160 public readings in many different countries and almost all of the 50 states. On Being Asked to Write a Poem Against the War in Vietnam: Hayden Carruth On seeing a Heavy Piece of Artillery brought into Action: Wilfred Owen Ordinance On Arrival: Naomi Lazard The Parable of the Old Man and the Young: Wilfred Owen The Persistence of Memory: Philip Appleman A Poem for the End of the Century: Czeslaw Milosz --. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. Andrew Himes was co-founder of Poets Against the War (with Sam Hamill and Emily Warn), executive producer of Voices in Wartime, and founder of Voices, which has now become the education program of the Charter for Compassion.. Voices in Wartime is a feature-length documentary that sharply etches the experience of war through powerful images and the words of poets, unknown and world-famous. This book grew from "Days of Poetry Against the War" in early 2003, which was itself a response to the cancellation of Laura Bush's "Poetry and the American Voice" symposium - a cancellation that occurred when some of the invited poets suggested that the event might be an occasion for social and artistic protest of the looming invasion of Iraq. Published: July 2016 There's a little boy standing by the fence with a flag in his hand. Contributors include: Adrienne Rich, W.S. Learn more about the program. Poets Against the War features a selection of the best poems that were submitted to the website. The movement inspired the 2004 documentary film Voices in Wartime, and then the Voices Education Project, with its mission to amplify the voices of veterans and civilian witnesses to war, in order to heal the wounds of war and lay the basis for a more peaceful world. But what struck me was the humanity of the voices--how much they cut through the political abstractions of our time. 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