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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Since January 2003, we've received thousands of poems, statements of conscience, and letters
of support. June, 2010 Ilona Martonfi Age 66 JACOB’S FATHER Gregg Mosson Age 30 Meditation on Washington D.C. in April 2003 Bethel Prescott Age 47 haiku Michael Skropka Age 28 A Loud Sigh... Claudia Sukman Age 62 Left, Behind A. D. Wiegert Age 24 Hang It Up April, 2010 Melissa Hamilton, Age 24 an interruption of one's routine during war Susheel Sharma Age 46 India Seven Poems on Gulf War
March, 2010 Henry R. Baldwin, Until Mark Brunke, Age 39, After My War Sarah Bruno, Age 21, Reading, Pennsylvania, War is Not Jamie Dedes, Age 60, Other Mothers' Children Randolph Nesbitt, Age 47, Aliso Viejo, CA, To Stand with the Warrior Poets in Fields of Wheat While Rome Burns February, 2010 Gene Barry, Age 52 Letter to Hashim James Graham, Age 70 Incendiary Phillip Levine, Age 53, New York Rivers and Gardens Randolph Nesbitt, Age 47, Aliso Viehjo, California You Gotta Love War Khalil Nieves, Age 57 jerusalem, shaheeda, we have already won Paul Lobo Portugés, Age 64, California The Killing fields Anna Ruiz, Age 61, Ohio Let My People Go! Jason Sturner, Age 36, Wheaton, Illinois The Pace of Waiting Jan Theuninck, Age 51, Vlaanderen/Belgium/Europe Beyond the limit
December, 2009 Leonardo Ibanez, Age 64, Venice, CA Section 60 Djelloul Marbrook Age 75, New York Hiccup Ilona Martonfi, Age 66 Uprising 1956 Susan McCaslin, Canada Shame Virginia Parkham, Age 66, Harrisburg, PA Bamiyan Linda Leedy Schneider, Chicago, IL Seven Daffodils, Iraqi Woman Attends a Wedding, Sunset, 2003
November, 2009 Patrick Daly, Age 61, Cupertino, CA Piano, Fall Jean Gerard, The Land of Shadows David M. King, Age 28, New York War Poem
October, 2009 Mark Brunke, Age 39 Watching Jean Gerard, Age 94 DEFRAGGING AFGHANISTAN Ilona Martonfi, Age 66, Canada The Siege Bethel Prescott, Age 47 McNamara's Fog Mary Strong Jackson, Age 53, Scottsbluff, Nebraska Solder Trees Doug Thiele Successful War and Desert Warfare August, 2009 Mark Brunke, Age 39 War Runs Across My Life Renny Christopher, Age 52 Mutanabi Street Book Mart Bombing, Baghdad, 3/5/07 Juan Fried, Coat Pat Harvey, Age 51 I Cannot Speak of War
July, 2009 Paul Batou, Age 49 Minor Dream Mark Brunke, Age 39 Close Distance Jean Gerard, Age 94 The Swing of Things Vahid Zaiee, Age 29, Iran Chaplin Henry Howard, Age 51 A Voice Silenced, A People Awakened
June, 2009 Jean Gerard, Age 94 CACOPHONY IN C# MINOR Alegria Imperial, Age 62, Vancouver, BC alien notes Randolph Nesbitt, Age 47, Aliso Viejo, CA This Imperial Blonde War Burns Under a Crimson Moon Randolph Nesbitt, Age 47 The Elephant Holds Peace in Its Tusk Like a Goldfish in Your Palm Laura Tattoo Age 52 Astoria, Oregon Iraq Haiku Series I-V
May, 2009 Nathan Bilger, Age 30 Message from Poet to General Jean Gerard, Age 95 Commissioned, DEFINING A COMMON NOUN Christian Ward. Age 28 The Year the Blackbirds Died
March, 2009 Jean Gerard, Age:94 Dreams of my Daughters Geraldine Green Age:53 United Kingdom IN THE POCKET OF THE WOUNDED SOLDIER Matthew Guariglia, Age 18 When the Street Party ended. Alan Husband, A few images on non-resistance to evil David Krieger, Age 60, Santa Barbara, CA Bombing Gaza Paul Lewton, Age 64, United Kingdom Eyeless in Gaza Karen Margolis, Age 56 Berlin, Germany Gaza Kevin Nicholson, Army National Guard, Iraq War Heather Spears, Age 74, Denmark, Obscurant, A Sent Photo
January, 2009 Brian Edwards The Shrine Allan Johnston, Age 59, Illinois Meditation on Bliss Leslie McClintock, Age 61 Fourteen School Children Murdered in Kabul Randolph Nesbitt, Age 47, Aliso Viejo, CA Cold Front Jan-Douglas Tuckley, Age 55 Finding Used Scrap Metal Rewa Zeinati, Age 30 Gaza 2008 and Heavy
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