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, 2009 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
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 December, 2008 Joop Bersee, Accuracy Cathleen Calbert, Age 43, Rhode Island, Softening Up Randolph Nesbitt, Age 47, Aliso Viejo, CA, Cold Front
November, 2008 Izabel Sonia Ganz, A Birthday Card from Warsaw Hadi Hajizadeh, Age 28, Wounded Soldier Henry Howard, Age 50, Los Angeles, CA, Crosses in the Sand Tasnim Qutait, Age 21, blue grievances
October, 2008 Red Cloud, let freedom ring Benjamin Doty, Age 32, Minnesota Baby Rodger Moody, Age 58, Eugene, Oregon Entering High School / Williamsport, Indiana, 1964 Randolph Nesbitt, Age 47, Aliso Viejo, California I Take This War Personal Wesley Teal, Age 24, Iowa recollections for Brandon
September, 2008 Steve Vinson, Age 59, The Wounds: Then and Now August, 2008 Kohleun Seo Adamson, Age 21, Oregon For Those Who Talk to Plants Martha Duncan, Age 57 Listen Marshall Gains, Age 29 cold inside Paul Sprague, Age 57, New Hampshire The War at Home
June, 2008 Ilona Martonfi, Age 66, Canada The Air Raid Randolph Nesbitt, Age 37, Aliso Viejo, CA A Brief, Despicable History of the World Bethel Prescott, Age 47 Haiku
May, 2008 Henry Braun, Age 76, Maine In Memory of Benjamin Linder John P. Cleary, Age 35 I have a soldier to thank Red Cloud I say not who I really am Antony Di Nardo, Age 58, West Beirut, Lebanon Tonight in West Beirut & You don't shoot the messenger Cole Eubanks, Age 57, Atlantic City, NJ Bridge Ken Head, Age 64, United Kingdom But the Child Died Kilian Kuntz, Age 53, Portland, OR Remember Natasha Maldonado, Age 22, New Jersey Iraq Muhammad Shanazar, Pakistan An Engrossed Mother Rayna Nielsen, Age 27, New Orleans, LA Washing Square Park
April, 2008 Beatrice G. Davis, Age 81 Then and Now Patricia Fargnoli, Age 65, New Hampshire Quotidian Poem Gene Grabiner In Our Hands Deirdre Lockwood, Age 31, Seattle, Washington American Sonnet Alison Mandaville, Age 44 Instructions To A War Tax Resister Sleeping Craig Oare, Age 55, Olympia, Washington Peace and War Bethel Prescott, Age 47 Untitled Haiku
March, 2008 Frank Craddock. Lynchburg, VA, Age 69, Stan Tom Goff, Carmichael, CA, Age 47, Sheer Simple Brute Peace Alegria Imperial, Vancouver, BC, Age 61, Rage, Deserter Carol Knepper, Age 61, Number the Poppies Mary Theresa Maggi, Moscow, ID, Age 52, An Iraqi Garbage Colector Nancy Metcalf, Age 68, Their Names Mark Murphy, Age 38, Seven Day Eternity Jessie O'Neil, Chapman University, California, Age 21, Kingdom Diane Spodarek, New York / New Zealand, In the no hills of Detroit (for Randy) January, 2008 Argelia Roman, What would you do? Gerard Sarnat, California, Age 62, 1986 Jeff Warzecha, Age 22, Notes From a Friend Marilyin Wallner,Carmichael, CA,Age 78, Collateral Damage Diana Ayton-Shenker, New York, Coming Home After Work to Sarah Martha Duncan, Age 57, Listen December, 2007 Mark Brunke, Age 39, Orpheus After the War Leo Yankevich, Age 46, Gliwice, Poland, No Flowers, No Doves November, 2007 Alicia Hoffman, Rochester, NY Coal Sarah Borsten, 22, And he Lands in a Place Randolph Nesbitt, 47, Aliso Viejo, CA Eva Braun Reflects October, 2007 Joseph Gastiger, Age 48, DeKalb, IL Rules of War, What Comes After Susan Kelly-DeWitt, Dogwood Norman Minnick, Another Peace Rally Constantine Pantazonis, Age 54, Dayton, Ohio, Delphi Anthony Tripi, Cambria, CA, AND THE WAR CAN GO ON FOREVER Robin Turner, Age 50, Dallas, Texas A Mother Writes to Laura Bush, Who Suffers
September, 2007 Laura Davies Foley, Age 49, New Hampshire Practicing Peace AWOL Joe (pseudonym), Age 34, Letter from an AWOL soldier, 34th Infantry Willie James King, Age 54, We Have Not Come That Far Clayton McCann, song of the legless marine Anne VanDeuson, Age 36, Virginia, Amnesia Ryan Vine, Minnesota, Self Portrait August, 2007 Jeannette Allée, HillBillions Wendy Brown, Age 54, What I Did For Peace Today John Fisher, Age 52 North Vancouver, B.C., Canada, Another Bomb in Bagdad Khristian M. Kay, Age 45, Untitled Mark Paltrineri, Age 22, Windows Greg Watson, Age 34, St. Paul, MN, Elsewhere
July, 2007 Mike Maxon, Age 28, Bits of Faith Leanne McIntosh, Age 65, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada, Rex Walton, Age 60, Lincoln, Nebraska, hold still: shrug noise Carolyn Srygley-Moore, Age 44, Upstate New York, Missing Soldiers June, 2007 Kathryn Baxter, Age 21, marked words Matthew Cariello, Age 48, Columbus, Ohio, First Dream of the Last Wave Acosta Dano, Age 53, Hawaii, A mother's impressions Jules Supervielle Translation from French by Geoffrey Gardner Mishe Mamor, Age 45, Upper Half May, 2007 Henry Braun, Age 76, Maine, April 23 in Wartime Gerald Glover, Age 30, Wilmington, Delaware, Up for Parts Phil Kirsch, Age 53, Millburn, New Jersey, Fallen April, 2007 Brent Goodman, Age 35, Armless Iraqi Boy Bears No Grudges for U.S. Bombing Mark Brunke, Age 39, Mothers Go to War March, 2007 Georgia Jones-Davis, age 55, A Veteran's Day Susan Berlin, age 61, In the Details Cynthia Bostwick, age 48, Port Huron, MI, 19 January 1946 Ilkin Sungu, age 48, Istanbul, Irak's flowers, mist and reunion with beloved Michael Warr, age 52, Truth Incineration Weam Namou, age 36, I Am a Mute Iraqi, With a Voice Linda Straub, age 58, Cartilage and Steel (Children of Iraq) Terry Song, age 55, Columbia, Missouri, A Prayer for Peace Val Phillips, age 38, Denver, CO, Afternoon at Deheishe
February, 2007 Nancy Johanson, age 57, Cincinnati, OH, Death Poem Tom Goff, age 47, Carmichael, CA, Divine Wind Inta Ezergallis, age 73, died Jan 1 , 2005, Superpower Blues January, 2007 Ellen Elizabeth, age 52, A Visit Before Deployment Eric Evans, age 37, Rochester, NY, Signing Statement; For The Benefit of the Academy; The Shooters and the Shot Mark Barabasz, age 52, Seattle, WA, Sunny Afternoon 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.
Our Vigil” (3/13/04) Saturday, March 13, 2004 Rebecca
Wyllie De Echeverria,
“Words
of Power” (Washington, USA, 3/12/04) craig
kirchner, “Baghdad
dream” (Maryland, USA, 3/9/04) Friday, March 12, 2004 Uju
Asika, “9.45PM
(These Things Happen)” (U.K., 3/10/04) Maury
Guerra, “Africa”
(3/10/04) Thursday, March 11, 2004 Al Staggs, “The Next Reich?” (Texas, USA, 3/8/04) NANDLAL PANCHOLI, “devastation” (Vadodara Gujarat, India, 3/7/04) Wednesday, March 10, 2004 Dale
Collins, “For
This” (South Carolina, USA, 3/7/04) thomas
chapman, “no
more” (USA, 3/8/04) Tuesday, March 9, 2004 Timothy
Beauchamp, “greatest
rogue nation - part deux” (Oklahoma, USA, 9/20/03) Anastasia Frangos, “Deep Into” (Delaware, USA, 3/7/04) Monday, March 8, 2004 DR.
MADAN GOPAL GANDHI, “MY
PART OF THE SIN” (New Delhi, India, 2/27/04) Sunday, March 7, 2004 Kathi Baron, “Before the Iraq War” (Illinois, USA, 11/6/03) Rio
de la Vista, “The
State of the Union -- January 28, 2003” (Colorado, USA, 3/5/04) Saturday, March 6, 2004 corey
walker, “3
awful haikus” and “so you see, mr. president” (New Mexico, USA, 3/4/04
and 3/5/04) Friday, March 5, 2004 Michael Estabrook, “heaven and earth,” “I NEVER HEARD THE EXPLOSION," and "LEAVING NOT EVEN A BONE BEHIND” (Massachusetts, USA, 2/29/04-3/3/04) e.w. swan, “February 15, 2003” (New York, USA, 3/2/04) Adrienne Stevenson, "Lament for a generation" (Ontario, Canada, 2/26/03) Thursday, March 4, 2004 mari
stitt, “haiku”
(Arizona, USA, 8/8/03) Nasra Al Adawi, “Beyond the boundaries of citizenship” (Oman, 3/3/04) Wednesday, March 3, 2004 Andrea Costantini, “Kabul”
and “From” (quartu s. elena, Italy, 8/29/03) Jan Oskar Hansen, “action movie and news” (Portugal, 11/18/03) Tuesday, March 2, 2004 Mary
Kay Rummel, “Stepping
Out” (California, USA, 2/6/03) Monday, March 1, 2004 Steve Osborn, "The Day of Two Sunrises" (Washington, USA, 2/25/04) Walt Abbott, "Moon Base" (Arizona, USA, 2/24/03) Saturday, February 28, 2004 Sarah Madsen, “(untitled)” (Munich, Germany, 7/24/03) Parul Saxena, “America” and “Repeat it” (Tennessee, USA, 2/24/04) Friday, February 27, 2004 Annie Gustin, “niki’s nightmares” (Connecticut, USA, 2/24/04) Antonieta Villamil, “MY NAME IS PEDRO” (2003) Thursday, February 26, 2004 willy bach, “Incident at Najaf (Iraq)” (Kampala, Uganda, 2/25/04) Rick Foster, “For the Man Who Was Born the Same Minute as I” (California, USA, 2/25/04) Wednesday, February 25, 2004 Nathaniel Perry, “I
Am Too Young To Remember Those Wars, But” (Rhode Island, USA, 2/5/03) D. P. Kellogg, “In Need of Counseling” (Washington, USA, 2/3/04) Tuesday, February 24, 2004 Kelley White, “From my father’s hands” and “A stranger spoke in Quaker meeting” (Pennsylvania, USA, 10/24/03) Joy Manesiotis, “Elegy in Wartime” (California, USA, 2/4/03) Monday, February 23, 2004 Dave Baker, “Birds of Pray” (Missouri, USA, 2/19/04) Pat Austin, “Drawing
the National Cemetery at Sitka” (Washington, USA, 2/17/04) Sunday, February 22, 2004 Tobias Deckert, “Red White and Blue” (2/10/04) Saturday, February 21, 2004 Leah Zazulyer, “Stealing
From A Deep Place” (New York, USA, 2/19/04) Isa Kocher, “POEM (to the Deerhunter)” (Muladda, Sultanate of Oman, 2/18/03) Friday, February 20, 2004 Sarah Zale, “The Qasab Reeds” and “Running Out Of Time” (Washington, USA, 2/18/04) Rob Wright, “Cantus
for the Horses” (Pennsylvania, USA, 2/28/03) Thursday, February 19, 2004 Ramie Streng, “Susan’s wish” (Oregon, USA, 2/17/04) Wednesday, February 18, 2004 Allen
Itz, “welcome
home the warrior safe and whole” (Texas, USA, 2/7/04) Jesse
Bowlin, “Remember
the Day” and “Inside” (Texas, USA, 2/8/03 and 2/10/04) Tuesday, February 17, 2004 Richard
Weekley, “The
Perfect Blind Spot” (California, USA, 2/9/04) Monday, February 16, 2004 Judy
Loest, “After
September 11” (Tennessee, USA, 2/15/04) Karma
Tenzing Wangchuk, “untitled
haiku” (Arizona, USA, 2/13/04) Ora
Z. Novick, “America,
meet Justification” (2/13/04) Sunday, February 15, 2004 Alyssa
Argenzio, “should
have never” (Virginia, USA, 2/13/04) Saturday, February 14, 2004 F.
D. Reeve, “The
Man Who Loved Music (In memory of Junius Scales, 1920-2002)” (2/8/03) Paul Siegell, “PEACE
EAGLE” and “how cari lucks
realized she loved the city”
(Georgia, USA, 2/11/03 and 2/17/03) Ellen Kazary, “Here’s to the Chapel of Love” (Alaska, USA, 2/12/03) Jeni Hogenson,
”To
George, A Love Poem for a Mother's Son” (Washington, USA, 2/14/03) jessy
kendall, “(love
is not cheesy)” (Maine, USA, 2/6/03) Friday, February 13, 2004 Kristian Ball, “FIRE ARMS. 4” (Missouri, USA, 9/29/03) M.L. Allen, “The Pilot’s Wife” (Florida, USA, 2/8/04) Thursday, February 12, 2004 Eric Gahala, “Ten-Thousand Depart” (Illinois, USA, 2/10/04) Frank Ford, “Collateral Damage; Hail to the Explosion of Foreign Children” (Florida, USA, 2/9/04) Wednesday, February 11, 2004 Guillermo Pareja-Herrera, “Guerra quiere decir” (Chihuahua, México, 2/13/03) Ching-In Chen,
“Love
Poem to America” (California, USA, 2/12/03) Tuesday, February 10, 2004 Pete Maestre, “Into The Mist ... From The Viet Cong To The Fedayeen” (Maine, USA, 2/7/04) Yasmin M. Moslem, “Feast of Calm” (Egypt, 2/7/04) Monday, February 9, 2004 Nancy Hill, “braided dreams” (Arizona, USA, 1/21/04) Altaira Hatton, “M19” (Oregon, USA, 1/29/04) Sunday, February 8, 2004 Alan Bender, “Pledge allegiance to President Bush . . .” (South Dakota, USA, 2/6/04) David White, Untitled (Massachusetts, USA, 2/4/04) Saturday, February 7, 2004 Rebecca Rossiter, “Beauty after the Bombs” and “The Names” (Ohio, USA, 2/2/04) scott kloos, “The Darien Gap” (Oregon, USA, 2/21/03) Friday, February 6, 2004 Dianna Henning, “The Finding Stick” (California, USA, 1/5/04) Randolph Nesbitt, “Dominoes” (California, USA, 1/29/04) Thursday, February 5, 2004 Chella Courington, Untitled and “Torment” Deborah Abdulla, “the laws of my soul” (Texas, USA, 2/2/04) Wednesday, February 4, 2004 Dhathri Chunduru, “Red Button” (Tennessee, USA, 2/2/04) Mike Hazard, Statement: "Media Dada's Manifesto" (Minnesota, USA, 2/27/03) Tuesday, February 3, 2004 Martín Espada, “Blues for the Soldiers Who Told You” (Massachusetts, USA, 2/3/04) Monday, February 2, 2004 Irmgard Hunt, “Allergy” (Colorado, USA, 2/5/03) Sunday, February 1, 2004 Vennila Kain, “Statement Being Peace” (New York, USA, 1/30/04) Beryl John-Knudson, “Frozen” (Minnesota, USA, 1/31/69-1/31/00) Saturday, January 31, 2004 Jose Lopez, “fear and pain” (Arizona, USA, 1/30/04) Humaira Faiz, “Morning” (New Jersey, USA, 1/30/04) Friday, January 30, 2004 James Fowler, “A
Haunted Sleep” (New Hampshire, USA, 1/29/04) Ari Adams, “The Engineer’s Cry” (Jerusalem, Israel, 1/30/04) Allen Itz, “State of the Union, January 2004” (Texas, USA, 1/26/04) Thursday, January 29, 2004 Alam Shah Hassan, “I Quote on ‘War & Peace’” (Malaysia, 1/28/04) anna chapman, “Dripping with peace” (Hawaii, USA, 1/26/04) Ashley Rogerson, “terror” (Iowa, USA, 1/27/04) Wednesday, January 28, 2004 David Bates, “PVT” (Texas, USA, 1/26/04) Gary Shoemaker, “Injustice and Vengeance” (1/27/04) cormac bourke, “Remember Nagasaki” (Dublin/Colorado, 1/27/04) Tuesday, January 27, 2004 Nicole Grant, “Any God Will Do: A Poem for Iraqi Women,” “We Are Told to Prepare for War,” and “Do you sleep?” (Kentucky, USA, 2/10/03-2/19/03) Jack Stull, “On the Other Side” (Washington, USA, 1/22/04) Monday, January 26, 2004 Daniel Stafford, "In Pursuit:" (Illinois, USA, 8/8/03-1/24/04) Sunday, January 25, 2004 Michael Collins, “Untitled” (Nottinghamshire, U.K., 1/3/04) Saturday, January 24, 2004 Ricardo Amezquita, “A Nuclear Family Poem,” “Star-Date 299-56,” and “Faith as a Third Eye” (2/7/03, 8/22/03, and 10/15/03) Maury Guerra, “As the Day Begins” (1/17/04) Javier Urbina, “WHY?” (Cd Juarez Chih, Mexico, 1/19/04) Friday, January 23, 2004 Bambi Dingman, “The Reincarnation of Hulagu Khan” (New Jersey, USA, 1/19/04) Sonja Skarstedt, “Panoply”
(Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1/20/04) Thursday, January 22, 2004 Hilda Alvarez-Strong, “When Does It Become Invisible?” (Florida, USA, 1/20/04) Thomas Wabipenache Coy, “Hillbilly Politics” (The Plains, Ohio, USA, 1/21/04) R. Richard
Wojewodzki, “Observations
During War” (Maryland, USA, 1/18/04) Wednesday, January 21, 2004 Lisa Walsh Thomas, “The Bridge at Nasiriya,” “The Poets of Baghdad,” and “Reborn, Marduk of Babylon” (Texas, USA, 1/20/04) Tuesday, January 20, 2004 Galen Garwood, “Land Mines” (1/20/04) Karma Tenzing Wangchuk, "REMEMBERING HIS DREAM: A Tanka Series” (1/20/04) Monday, January 19, 2004 ramesh prakashvelu,
“we
speak - respect equals” (India, 8/15/03) Tobias Deckert, “My Friend Is Going to War” (1/17/04) Sunday, January 18, 2004 rosanne benedetto-driscoll, “Not” (Massachusetts, USA, 2/11/03) Sierra BushRester, “After the War” (Florida, USA, 1/12/04) Diane Wyland Carle, “A Rooster Screams Nearby” and “Mallard” (Washington, USA, 12/9/02 and 3/23/03) Saturday, January 17, 2004 Travis Godbold, “Into the Storm” (Arizona, USA; 1/16/2004) Friday, January 16, 2004 Dhathri Chunduru, “Unforgiving Sky” and “They Forgot to Mention” (Tennessee, USA, 10/12/03 and 1/15/04) Christopher Knaus, “Children’s Peace Day” (California, USA, 1/15/04) Thursday, January 15, 2004 Emily Duncan, “Believe it (or not)” (1/11/04) Kim Masson, “Room
14” (London, U.K., 1/12/04) Wednesday, January 14, 2004 tri tran, “the day the wind brings peace” (California, USA, 1/13/04) Tara DellaFranzia, “Mother of Exiles” (Pennsylvania, USA, 2/6/03) Tuesday, January 13, 2004 Peters Aaron, “September eleventh” hadad ahmed, “The Sword of Domocles” (Casablanca, Morocco, 1/11/04) Monday, January 12, 2004 babatunde abiodun,
“A
VOICE TO THE WORLD” (Nigeria, 1/1/04) Tara
Perkins, “Widow’s
Day in Mosul” (Vermont, USA, 8/13/03) Sunday, January 11, 2004 Lys Anzia, “How Long The Day” (Colorado, USA, 1/10/04) Michelle Rhea, “The Pen and the Sword.” “My Son Marched Against The War,” and “First Amendment” (California, USA, 2/9/03-2/15-03) Saturday, January 10, 2004 Leona Heitsch, “Feel
It,” “Darn
Good,” “Refresh,” and “The
Source” (Missouri, USA, 2/4/03-1/9/04) kyle armstrong, “man’s ego shattered” (California, USA, 1/8/04) Friday, January 9, 2004 S.M. Gray, Untitled; and “An American Dream” and others (California, USA, 9/24/03-1/6/04) Frances Cheung, “Murderous
Justifications” (Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1/4/04) Thursday, January 8, 2004 Peter Danbury, “Winter ’03” and “Little Jihad” (Minnesota, USA, 2/9/03 and 1/7/04) pat frisella, “Silent Stones Say” and “this is the earth with atlas collapsing” (New Hampshire, USA, 12/3/03 and 1/7/04) Wednesday, January 7, 2004 Takeshi Toya, “America” (Tokyo, Japan, 1/6/04) Margaret Riordan, “Incantation” (Washington, USA, 1/6/04) Jack Agüeros, “Fewking War” (Puerto Rico/New York, 1/6/04) Tuesday, January 6, 2004 Dianna Henning, “The Finding Stick” (California, USA, 1/5/04) George Bowering, Statement of Conscience (British Columbia, Canada) Deanne Ledebuhr, “Stitch” and “Goodbye Combat Boots” (California, USA, 12/2/03 and 1/5/04) Monday, January 5, 2004 Virginia Conn, “Moore’s woman” (New York, USA, 8/22/03) Sunday, January 4, 2004 Jeff Walliker, “WALKING DEAD” (Australia, 1/2/04) Moji Agha, “The Evolution of Even-Handed Poetry” (Arizona, USA, 2/12/03) Saturday, January 3, 2004 Jacqui Maher, “Life’s True Deadlines” (New York, USA, 1/2/04) Howard Temperley, “Three Poems Concerning War” (Connecticut, USA, and Norwich, England; April-September 2003) Friday, January 2, 2004 John Grant, “happy new year” (Kagoshima, Japan, 12/30/03) Colleen Redman, “Sign of the Times/2004” (Virginia, USA, 1/1/04) Thursday, January 1, 2004 Earl Anderson, “ANGEL” (Oklahoma, USA, 12/30/03) Rachel Levine, “Little Scraps of Paper” (Kentucky, USA, 12/31/03) Pamela Sidney, “Just Sing America” (Melbourne Victoria, Australia, 12/28/03) Wednesday, December 31, 2003 Shelley Savren, “The Smell of Stones,” “Saddam City, A Found Poem,” "Here in California, March 2003," and “Cluster Bombs” (California, USA, 2/6–8/8/03) Tuesday, December 30, 2003 Mustansir Dalvi, “3 poems against the war” (New Bombay, India, 12/5/03) Faye Snider, “THE DAY AFTER HALLOWEEN” (Massachusetts, USA, 12/29/03) Monday, December 29, 2003 LauraL Koenig, “Early Morning Baghdad” (12/27/03) Sunday, December 28, 2003 Karamoh Kabba, “From Rain to Rain: Dedicated to the children of war in Sierra Leone” (Maryland, USA/Sierra Leone, 12/27/03) Alice Trei, “A Fading Voice” (Massachusetts, USA, 12/26/03) Leigh Faulkner, “The Loss of Maples” and “Ghazal: Two Years On” (Oita-ken, Japan, 2/14/03 and 12/26/03) Saturday, December 27, 2003 zafaryab ahmed, “A plea from the peace Loving people of the world” (New York, USA, 12/26/03) Randolph Bridgeman, “Collateral Damage” (Maryland, USA, 12/23/03) Friday, December 26, 2003 F. D. Reeve, “The Man Who Loved Music (In memory of Junius Scales, 1920-2002)” and “the causes of war: indifference” (2/8/03 and 8/12/03) Kevin Andrew Murphy, “Lady Pu-abi” (California, USA, 10/6/03) Don Dagg, “Enduring” (Oregon, USA, 8/8/03) Thursday, December 25, 2003 Ona Gritz, “A Taste” (New Jersey, USA, 12/24/03) Rebecca del Rio-Ruso, “De Luto / In Black” (California, USA, 12/22/03) David Krieger, “A Conspiracy of Decency” and “The Bells of Nagasaki” (California, USA, 12/24/03) Jacqueline D’Agostino, “Lost Innocence and Marbles” (Massachusetts, USA, 12/8/03) Lorraine Gane, “IN THE FIELDS OF IRAQ?” (British Columbia, Canada, 4/12/03) Wednesday, December 24, 2003 James M. Thompson, “A Thousand Voices” (Texas, USA, 10/15/03) Marthe Raymond, “RAVEN
ON THE CLEARWATER RIVER” (Oaxaca, Mexico, 8/8/03) Tuesday, December 23, 2003 Catriona Rueda Esquibel,
“Hanging
Tinsel on the Eve of Destruction” (Ohio, USA, 12/13/03) Daniel Forbes, “Emulate
Reindeer” (12/22/03) Claude Charest, ”J'entends
les pas” (Sept-Iles, Québec Province, Canada) Monday, December 22, 2003 SangKe, “Baghdad Child, 02/1991” (3/29/03) Matt Beagle Bourgault, "NORTH DAKOTA, LATE SPRING” (Vermont, USA, 11/3/03) eugene alexander, “the once sweet wall” (California, USA, 2/12/03) Saturday, December 20, 2003 Rebecca Kinzie Bastian, “Calf Snow” (Pennsylvania, USA, 8/28/03) David Sklar, “A Walk in the Darkness” (New Jersey, USA, 10/16/03) Friday, December 19, 2003 Jackie Carr,
“Fascist
Groove Thang” Thursday, December 18, 2003 Emily Dimov-Gottshall, “Leaving Oz” (Pennsylvania, USA, 12/14/03) Robert Fronske, “Crosswords, Cross worlds,” “Silence,” and “Last Light 2” (Arizona, USA, 8/7/03-12/15/03) Wednesday, December 17, 2003 Trevor Przyuski,
“The
Slide” (Virginia, USA, 11/6/03) Alicia
Ostriker, “FIX”
(Cambridge, England, and New Jersey, USA, 8/11/03) Tuesday, December 16, 2003 Alex
Walking Bear, “I
Am Scared I am scared” (Virginia, USA, 12/4/03) Gaia
Hawkin, “Upon
Seeing” (Washington, USA, 2/9/03) Monday, December 15, 2003 Thomas Coy, Four poems (Appalachian southern Ohio, USA, 2/13/03-12/11/03) Nels
Christianson, “the
old soldiers” and “statement” (California, USA, 2/26/03 and12/10/03) Sean
Scharbach, “Were
It Not For The Sound Of Jet Fighters” (Louisiana, USA, 4/21/03) Sunday, December 14, 2003 Karen Kevorkian, "The Red Dream” and “Morning News" (Virginia, USA, 8/8/03) Kathleen Patterson, "Lady Liberty" (Tennessee, USA, 8/7/03) Howard Chadwick, "NOT ANY MORE" (Washington, USA, 11/10/03) Saturday, December 13, 2003 Michael Young, "I Want to Know" (California, USA, 12/8/03 R. L. Hanson, "This Evening’s News Will Be Retracted” and “For What Great Purpose?" (12/9/03 and 12/10/03) Martin Galvin, "Still Life" (8/8/03) Friday, December 12, 2003 Lynn Strongin, “MANDELSTAMS IN EXILE (Trilogy)” (British Columbia, Canada, 8/21/03) John
Hartman, “Who could possibly think that the world would be
better off with Saddam Hussein still in power?” (Oklahoma, USA, 10/27/03) Cor
van Schaik, “MULTIPLE
CHOICE” (Woensdrecht, Netherlands, 8/8/03) Thursday, December 11, 2003 alicia
benjamin-samuels, “El
Sueno (The Dream)” (Tennessee, USA, 8/8/03) Susan Hales, “Get Over It! A Ghazal” (Alabama, USA, 11/23/03) Tom Page, “Lost Birds” (North Carolina, USA, 3/23/03) and “Against the Babble” (9/17/03) Wednesday, December 10, 2003 Beverly Jones, “Patriot song” (New Mexico, USA, 12/7/03) Matt Dolan, “I can't watch the news anymore” (12/6/03) Suzanne Selby Grenager, “Hate Is Hate Is Hate” (Pennsylvania, USA, 12/7/03) Tuesday, December 9, 2003 Peter Koeber, “SHADES OF SPRING” (Illinois, USA, 12/3/03) Mike Maggio, “Two Soldiers” (Virginia, USA, 12/6/03) James Schwartz, “The Death and The Destruction” (Michigan, USA, 11/30/03) Deborah Kelland, “Reality TV” (Sheffield, U.K., 9/11/03) Monday, December 8, 2003 jonathan perez, “War Fair: A Semi-Political Piece” (Maine, USA, 8/8/03) Carla
Panciera, “The
Only Battle Memory I Wish For Him” (Massachusetts, USA, 2/16/03) Sunday, December 7, 2003 Parul Saxena, “America” (Tennessee, USA, 12/4/03) Michael Smith, “We, the Exposed” (New Mexico, USA, 12/4/03) Kathleen Mannozzi, “March 19.2003” (12/5/03) Saturday, December 6, 2003 Susan McKeon-Steinmann, “Shelter Drills and Other 50's Delusions (A Poem Read at Hiroshima Day Commemoration at Bellport Waterfront, August 6, 2003)” (New York, USA, 9/5/03) Gregory Fitzsimmons, “About the Document” (Illinois, USA, 12/1/03) Kate Driggers, “silently” (Florida, USA, 11/17/03) Friday, December 5, 2003 Clea Allington, “Beyond”
(Washington, USA, 11/29/03) Thursday, December 4, 2003 Michael Dennis Browne, “In a Bar in Chicago” (Minnesota, USA, 12/1/03) Patricia D'Alessandro, “November 11, 2003” (California, USA, 11/27/03) Wednesday, December 3, 2003 Roberta Reyes Cordero, “Peace Is a Verb” (California, USA, 2/17/03) M. Tracey Chesler, “Sleeping
Bears” (Hawaii, USA, 3/6/03) Joy Farmer, “Iraqi Spring 2003” and “The Killing Fields” (Georgia, USA, 10/14-10/16/03) Tuesday, December 2, 2003 Delphine D. Cuomo, “The
Dignity of November” (British Columbia, Canada, 10/15/03) David Farrah, “Thou Shalt Not Kill” (Kobe, Japan, 2/4/03) Julian Bernick, “Written on the Moon” and “Update on the War” (Minnesota, USA, 8/13/03) Andrea Costantini,
“Kabul”
and “From” (Quartu S. Elena, Italy, 8/29/03-10/15/03) Monday, December 1, 2003 Patricia Bulitt, Untitled
(California, USA, 8/20/03) Kodaganalur Subramanian,
“War
a crime” (Coimbatore, India, 10/27/03) jill sahlstrom, “White House Poetry” (Washington, USA, 9/6/03) Sunday, November 30, 2003 Patricia Fargnoli,
“In
an American Village,” “Richford 1945,” “Syllabics for the
Second Anniversary” (New Hampshire, USA, 2/6/03-9/8/03) Ian Reed, “Pax Americana" and "Interim Report” (New York, USA, 8/8/03) Saturday, November 29, 2003 Kurt Dudt, “Doing It Again” (Pennsylvania, USA, 8/13/03) Friday, November 28, 2003 Elizabeth Kincaid-Ehlers, “It is not right (Thanksgiving time, 1990),” Parts 1 and 2 (Connecticut, USA, 2/9/03) Thursday, November 27, 2003 Suzannah Gilman,
“From
a Mother of Sons” Johanna Herrick, “ICARUS”
and “BLACKOUT” Randolph Bridgeman, “The Telegram” (Maryland, USA, 11/26/03) Wednesday, November 26, 2003 David Wodtke, “And/or”
(Oregon, USA, 11/25/03) John Hofer, “Night Poem” (Oregon, USA, 10/31/03) Bo Adan, “Pacific Daylight Time” (Oregon, USA, 2/18/03) Tuesday, November 25, 2003 Niea Morgan, “Is It Always Fire” (11/23/03) ian parks, “A CORPSE IN THE WOODS” (United Kingdom, 11/19/03) Randolph Nesbitt, “The Bully Down the Street,” “The Curious King” (California, USA, 2/15-2/17/03), and “Need to Know” (11/12/03) Monday, November 24, 2003 Héctor Urruspuru, “Ruanda” (Argentina, 11/17/03; in English and Spanish) Randolph Bridgeman, “Life on Hill #324” (Maryland, USA, 11/21/03) AnthonyAdrian Pino, “Mars, 2003” (California, USA) Robert Priest, “WWD’s” (Canada, 11/22/03) Sunday, November 23, 2003 Gill Laker, “Voices from the Air” (United Kingdom, 9/17/03) Andy Berg, “Haiku for George" (London, 2/5/03) zerrin bakoglu, “a girl of four in iraq” (Turkey, 2/12/03); and “a girl of four in Iraq (in the shelter downstairs)” (8/9/03) Saturday, November 22, 2003 Ershad Mazumder, “Come Back Home” (Bangladesh, 11/21/03) Bruce Niedt, “Postcard from an Invisible City” (New Jersey, USA, 11/20/03) Grover Ellis, “On The Home Front” (Washington, USA, 2/12/03) Friday, November 21, 2003 Teddy Milne, “I am in mourning” Karl Kish, “MARCH 2003” Lisa Kallal, “Over There and Again” Thurssday, November 20, 2003 Susan Michele Evans, “Roadmap to Peace” Alan Corkish, “Two
Million” Stephen Cullis, “Tell My Mother Iraq” Peter King, “Interesting Times” Rogan Wolf, “Returning to the Desert” Wednesday, November 19, 2003 Robert Bly, “CALL AND ANSWER,” “THE APPROACHING WAR,” “THE BLINDING OF SAMSON” Tuesday, November 18, 2003 Judith Roche, "Credo" Katah Katah, "Hommage to Babylon" Erin Bell, "I) Anti-Hope and II) Hope" Monday, November 17, 2003 Michelle Retford, "NIGHTVISION" Sandy Steinman, “SAFE
IN SHARAZ” and "Two Beaches" Sunday, November 16, 2003 Maryna Ajaja, “Purple Heart” Stephen Badhwar, “Opinion” Saturday, November 15, 2003 Gary
Blankenship, “The
Winds of Autumn” Sybil
Jaeggi, “Once
Dropped” Dennis
Kelly, “Tale
of a Book” Friday, November 14, 2003 Anil Prasad, “S.O.S.” Janine
Pommy Vega, “In
th 'Thursday, November 13, 2003 oscar truitt, “White Streak Over Baghdad “ and “beside the euphrates” Ngoma
Hill, “ Steve Osborn, “I Think I’d Rather be with Alice” Wednesday, November 12, 2003 Marlene Decker, “Copter Down” Carmen Lupton, “Orange
Crush” Eloise Evans, “Four Voices” Norma Desprez, “FLAG” Karma Tenzing Wangchuk, Untitled Tanka Tuesday, November 11, 2003 Howard Chadwick, “WHEN DIPLOMACY WON'T WORK” Doug Rawlings, “Veterans Day” E.G. Burrows, “VETERANS DAY” betty k. aberlin, “Rhetorical Questions” John T. Carter, “STREETS OF TIKRIT” Jim Lee Master, “My Dad is a Vet” barbara j. rios, “veterans’ day” Kathleen Green Gardner, “VETERAN” Dani Blair, “a young veteran's victorious moment..” Monday, November 10, 2003 Myra South, “Boys Sleeping” Connie Williams, “The Resistor” Sunday, November 9, 2003 Patricia Bryan, "white stone, black stone" Holly Berkowitz, "Civil please" Joy Farmer, "Iraqi Spring 2003" Michael Beispel, "The Misery of War" 4Friday, November 7, 2003 S.M.
GRAY, “For
Whom the Bell Tolls, Follow the Polls” 4Thursday, November 6, 2003 Tia
Ballantine, “TRIPWIRE”
and “THE LANGUAGE OF WAR” Daniel Collins, “how the nazis almost pulled it off (or: the 7th inning stretch)” Linda
Mahshie, “Old
Woman” 4Wednesday, November 5, 2003
Linda
Brown, “Mikayo
and the Gulf War,” “Pearl Harbor's Child, “Strange Birds” Matt
Beagle Bourgault, “MEMO
FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TO ITS CITIZENS” and “NORTH DAKOTA,
LATE SPRING” Susan
Hazen-Hammond, “Nothing
But the Punch Lines” and “The Rube Goldberg War” 4Tuesday, November 4, 2003 tony hoagland, “THE KIND OF SHADOW THAT CALLS OUT TO FATE” Llyn Clague, ”To Future Generations” 4Monday, November 3, 2003 Marilyn Krysl, “TARGET” Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan, “During” Susan Elbe, “Inside a Dream of Peace” Diane E. Dees, “History Lesson” and “Dream State” 4Sunday, November 2, 2003 Peter Markus, "The City of My Imagination" America Alexander Learmont, “Social Phrenology” chris crago, “War Is Kind” Jane Corrado, “prayer for the president” 4Saturday, November 1, 2003 Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore, “WAR” Annaliese Jakimides, “Reunion at the Vietnam Women's Memorial Dedication” Shoja Adel, “Thorn in My Heart” Richard Hamilton, “Sergeant
Bell” Dellana Diovisalvo, Untitled 4Friday, October 31, 2003 William
Marr, “War
Arithmetic,” “Desert Flower,” “Tears, Ink, and Blood” Anna Aschenbach, “Children First” Nicholas Vittum, “Night watch” Meg Withers, “LOSING BABYLON” 4 Thursday, October 30, 2003 Geoff Colson, “Rocket ship 7” 4 Tuesday, October 28, 2003 Ricardo Amezquita, “A Nuclear Family Poem,” “Star Date 299-56”, “Faith as a Third Eye” Amy Oliver, “A Different America” Rafael J. González, “The Towers” 4 Monday, October 27, 2003 Idan Simon, “Something
new (my first english poem)” Maxwell Corydon Wheat, Jr., “Iraq” and Untitled Carol Thomas, “Bete Noir” Diana Anderson, “Digging Rare Bulbs” 4 Sunday, October 26, 2003 Lucie McKee, “You are being tested now" and “The Imperialists Are Coming -- Good News For the Jealous” Norma Wilson, “The Veil of Sleep” Steve Goldman, “America” Alec Emerson, “Before 2004” Mary Chianta Canzoneri, “REAPERS PAY UP!” 4 Saturday, October 25, 2003 Salil Biswas, “To Die For” Selma Pittman, “87 billion reasons” Howard Winn, “It Was A Lovely Day To Start A War” Michael Ketchek, “Another War Another Rally” 4 Friday, October 24, 2003 Dhathri Chunduru, “Unforgiving Sky” Barbara Berman, “Father Louie Got It Right” and “Harvest” Gregory Nelson, “Epimetheus” Jan Oskar Hansen, “missing son" 4 Thursday, October 23, 2003 zuhaira sabbagh, “Prayer” Steve Osborn, “Glory of War” Martha Sanchez-Lowery, “Leonid Night” Scott Wannberg, “Emily Dickinson in Iraq” David Sklar, “A Walk in the Darkness” 4 Wednesday, October 22, 2003 stephen mead, “Victim #29” Alex Anlyan, “Thoughts on the war March 28th, 2003 in the morning” David Bayless, “AFTER THE WARS” and “President Junior, of the Nation of Acirema, Goes to War” Joy Farmer, ”The Killing Fields” 4 Tuesday, October 21, 2003 Doris H. Thurston, “No One is Listening (Thank you, Hayden Carruth!) (Villanelle)” Dawn Tucksmith, “Snowy Day” Devin Mikles, “SMOKING (aka Body Bag Detail)” Dwight Rousu, “Geo Ogre” 4 Monday, October 20, 2003 John Darnell, “nightmare” James Deahl, “Siblings” Shineye Wright, “MY Apologies” Bob Hicks, “Starve War” 4 Thursday, October 16, 2003 Ric Williams, “sands” Rita Kiefer, “What If in a Time of War; Our Weakest Hold; Even the Moon” Murray Bodo, “Hope” and “After the War” Michael Ketchek, “War” 4 Wednesday, October 15, 2003 Peter Spang Goodrich, “Poof” H. Palmer Hall, “Monument” Jesse Bier, “Marching Home” Andy Hare, “Petals” Patricia Kevena Fili, “A Pawn Prepped” 4 Tuesday, October 14, 2003 Stella Karl, “Damned is a Time Such as This” Parween Pazhwak, “An Interview With An Afghan Kid” Maury Guerra, “Rondo of Contrasts” Tom Goff, “Iraq” and “Refitting the Belt” 4 Monday, October 13, 2003 F. D. Reeve, “The
Man Who Loved Music (In memory of Junius Scales, 1920-2002)” janice la pinta, “The Grave at Dasht-e Leili” Azara Limbada, “Welcome To Hellfire.” Grace Beeler, “What Would You Do?” and “Comforts of the tongue” 4 Sunday, October 12, 2003 C. K. Williams, “War” Patricia Wellingham-Jones,
“The
Cleanest War in History” and “In
Front of a Mosque in Baghdad” Jonathan McVerry, “Bananas for Fish” Erin Mapplewood, “There is No Good Without Bad” Adrienne Stevenson, “Grand Cycle” 4 Saturday, October 11, 2003 Robert Aitken, “Legacies” Judith Barrington, “Excerpt from After D-Day, a narrative poem (Canto Three, 1” ELECTA ARENAL (transl.), (Untitled) 4 Friday, October 10, 2003 Larry Ebersole, “Iraqi Flowers” and “Emergency Responses" Magdalene Gonzales, “Voices in your head” christina burress, “…an eye for an eye…a tooth for a tooth” 4 Thursday, October 9, 2003 Indira Bissessar, “Left Behind” David Salner, “In Another Mug Shot” Ken Wheatcroft-Pardue, “Revelation on a Plain Jar” Lethia Cobbs, “What Do You Say?” 4 Wednesday, October 8, 2003 Ela Gandhi, “An Ode to The Creator” 4 Tuesday, October 7, 2003 Timothy Young, “The Thread of Sunlight” Judith Terzi, “The Subjunctive of Iraq” Janeen Gunn, “The Beginning of The Fall” Barbara Strasko, “The Causes” 4 Monday, October 6, 2003 Bill Costley, “OUT OF Manhattan” to “BOOTING BLO@TING B@LLS” Harriet Zinnes, (Untitled) Steven Cleaver, “Mrs. Cavanaugh” 4 Sunday, October 5, 2003 Gordon Adams, “Patriots” Ed Boufford, “Two Casualties” Polly Buckingham, “Fable” Thomas Scheff, “Report to Fox News” Calla C. Smith, “How Many?” and “Peace” 4 Saturday, October 4, 2003 Jeanne Spicuzza, “blackbirds” Joseph Knoepfler, “Hear
The Ghost of Justice Hiss” and “In
the early hours of an unexpected power” Caroline
Williamson, “Prelude” Tamara Kaye Sellman, “Slow Information” 4 Friday, October 3, 2003 Harold Slade, “Where Is My Country?” and “The Occupiers” Marcyn Del Clements, “Mourning Rows” Minerva Bloom, “Sing, Said the Songbird” Alex Morse, “My Goldfish” 4 Thursday, October 2, 2003 Jeffrey Buehler, "The Sad and Aching Heart" John Paul Adams, “Dying as light” Eric Mader, “The Bad Shepherd” Erin Mapplewood, “There is No Good Without Bad” 4 Wednesday, October 1, 2003 india rassner-donovan, “Peacekeepers Lament” Marlene Rowe, “Justification of the Hunt” and “Tragic Truth” Gail Golden, “The Plains of Moab” 4 Tuesday, September 30, 2003 Sidney Wade, “Doomsday Verse” Matthew Dowd, “Through The Dark Walls” Maryna Ajaja, “Blackout” Pete Madzelan, “Unvarnished Lies” 4 Monday, September 29, 2003 Rain I. Limbada, “September 11: Who are the hidden victims?” Art Washburn, “Patterns of Peace” Lynn-Marie Gildersleeve, “Honest Mistake” Barry Goldensohn, “THE BODY POLITIC,” “ON OUR SIDE,” and “IN THE MUSEUM” 4 Sunday, September 28, 2003 r krake, “Enough Pain to Stop the Poems” David Rossi, “Liberation” Bill Carpenter, “The End of Irony” Catherine Wallace, “If” Zack Kopp, “ELBOW ROOM” 4 Saturday, September 27, 2003 Halvard Johnson, “Somewhere around Barstow” (2/03); “Firefight at the Palestine Hotel” (9/03) Dylan Elfert, “The Dead” Bobbie Enz, “Angel of Mercy” Sandra Ahrens, “Recovery, Ground Zero” 4 Friday, September 26, 2003 Hettie Jones, "Weather" Liz Abrams-Morley, “Or Surely We Shall All Hang Separately” Diane Wyland
Carle,
“Daily Word of Dead Soldiers” 4 Thursday, September 25, 2003 Bill Wadsworth, “Bloom’s Photograph” Jordan Jones, “Birds of Iraq” Fred Johnston, “A BRIGHT THING” 4 Wednesday, September 24, 2003 Jeffrey Buehler, "The Sad and Aching Heart" Alex Morse, “My Goldfish” Steve Hamm, “on memorial day” Beau Golwitzer, "untitled poem against war and for love" 4 Tuesday, September 23, 2003 laurie kuntz, “My Son has a Sleepover While Bush Deploys Troops” P. Dugan, “fleas jump overboard” Marc Hofstadter, “Love of America” Jack Bowman, "Memory is a Thing of the Past." 4 Monday, September 22, 2003. In memory of the inimitable Jeff Hayward.
Henry Braun, “Surfing the Morning News” Fred DeReau, "Children" Sandra Finn, "(Untitled)" 4 Sunday, September 21, 2003 Glenda Cooper, “The Man Who Heard Cats Walking” Daniel Stafford, “Salvation’s Rust” Airini Beautrais, "when i was seven" JL Bachert, “After September 11, 2001 and 2003” 4 Saturday, September 20, 2003 Stephanie Bordeaux, "Spinning" jacoba maria charles, "untitled" trevor baumgartner, "they never do stop" Jacqueline Gray,
"Columbia" Stream Ohrstrom,
"Hide
in the library" 4 Friday, September 19, 2003 David Gravender, “The Flyover” Estela Ohlrogge, “Iraqi News” Marcy Litle, “An Ordinary Sunday Afternoon” John Siddique, “George ‘Ozymandias’ Bush esq. Leader of the Free World” 4 Thursday, September 18, 2003 Gill Laker, “Voices from the Air” Tom Page, “Against the Babble” Marisol Kaminski, “On The Second Night of War On Iraq” Tanner McCardle, “Embraces and Blankets” 4 Wednesday, September 17, 2003
Daniel Mills, “Afghan Refugee” Tatyana Mishel, “Last Day Poem” David Ray, “A Rest from the News” Ed Smith, “THE GENERALS” sandra thaxter, “In the Spider’s Web” 4 Tuesday, September 16, 2003
Tom Foote, "Rachel" Thomas Hubbard, “Rafah, 16 March” Mariella Coleti, “Rachel Corey, Rafah March 16 2003” 4 Monday, September 15, 2003
Terry Murcko, “Love Grammar” Robert Lipton, “Shaheed (Martyr)” Prairie Wolfe, “Free Friends” Gill Laker, “Doppler” sarah daugherty, “anti-” 4 Sunday, September 14, 2003 beth coyote, “Again” Walter W. Hoelbling, “it’s time again” Robert King, “I Stood on a Corner” Lalitha Shastri, “CRIMSON STONES” 4 Saturday, September 13, 2003
Mary Ruhl, “Aftermath” Bruce Niedt, “In Training” Anthony Tripi, “Old War Poem for Our Time” Nita Donovan, “Caligula” Caroline Norris, “Here We Are” 4 Friday, September 12, 2003 Bill Pearlman, “9-11-02” John Bloomberg-Rissman, “XXXIa from From Winter to Winter” Skip Robinson, “Back the night before,” Roy Schoenberg, “COMMEMORATIVES” 4 Thursday, September 11, 2003 Tara Marshall, “Consequences” Ned Balbo, “A Reckoning” Robin Kemp, “Reply to my Niece about 9/11” Jodie Kliman, “In Search of Tikkun Olam After September 11th, 2001” Rafael J. González, “The Towers” Patricia Fargnoli, “Syllabics for the Second Anniversary” John Staffeld, “Poets Will Always Be Heard” / “Wars Never End” Sandra Ahrens, “Recovery, Ground Zero” Michasel Hendryx-Schanzer, “Ground Zero; NYC 9/11/2001- IRAQ 2003” Bob Rixon, “Martin of Tours, as the Burning Towers Fall” Malcolm Shute, “9/16/01” Jennifer Greene, “Shadow Ate Peace” 4 Wednesday, September 10, 2003 David Bates, “BASIC LOAD (and) NEW HAT (and) YOUR DARKER SIDE” Annie Lighthart, “The dogs and birds of Baghdad” Donald Lusk, “Shadows Shadows” Michael Zbigley, “Mountain-shadowed, this town” James E. Jennings, Ph.D., “I Hate This Terror War” 4 Tuesday, September 9, 2003 judith bishop, “Coyote’s Medicine” Al Adawi, “Oh God- what had made us reach this far” Joshua Liss, “How is it Taken?" Ken Weisner, “After Gertrude Stein” 4 Monday, September 8, 2003 Christina Vadino,
“Morning
News” Eso Benjamins, “A chant” Nate Cull, “Blood” Cooney Michael, “Going to Babylon” Nick Stanley, “This
Is How Far We’ve Come” 4 Sunday, September 7, 2003 Michael Wolfe, “The Tender Hierarchy” Joyce Meyers, “Disarming Iraq” michael loudon, “Fair
Trade” Ryfkah Horwitz, “Flowers Sing Under White Stones” Angela Kelly, “Brilliant Canary in the Cage” 4 Saturday, September 6, 2003 W. Dale Nelson, “Returning
from the War Zone” Iftikhar Zaidi, “Open Society” and “War on Terror” 4 Friday, September 5, 2003 Victoria Ford, “SAY CAN YOU HEAR” John Streamas, “Alternatives to Dropping the Big One” Paul Lacey, “Get Fat for France” Ellen Johns, “Peace” 4 Thursday, September 4, 2003 Susan Rich, “Dharma Dialogues” Brigit Truex, “War News: In The Meantime” Richard Vargas, “Columbians Say 200 Rebels Dead” Devin Alaric Mikles,
MD, “Message
to the President” 4 Wednesday, September 3, 2003 P. Dugan, “Iraq” Steven Shinn, “SHE WORE A PRETTY DRESS” Siobhan A.
Breathnach, “Wistawa-Poet
of the Real World” Devin Madden, “Somewhere/Somehow.” 4 Tuesday, September 2, 2003 Alberto Florentino, “5
POEMS FOR MY APOs” Leigh Robertson, “Untimely” Deborah Stoddard, “After a Bombing at a Baghdad Market” David Campbell, “(of series) Peace and War” Pearl Stein Selinsky, “War” 4 Monday, September 1, 2003 ramesh prakashvelu, “we speak – respect equals” Linda Clifton, “Wind Blew Out” Karma Tenzing Wangchuk, “Untitled Tanka” Irene Lipshin, “Gandhi’s Children” Andrea Costantini, “Kabul” 4 Sunday, August 31, 2003 Dellana Diovisalvo, “Before” Ramie Streng, “Understanding War” Lilvia Soto, “Before War” John Mathewson, “March 19, 2003” Mary Grace Butler, “Summer Musings” 4 Saturday, August 30, 2003 Stephen Wing, “Cousin
Who Would Fly a Bomber for the Sake of Flying,” Daniel Stafford, “Return My Colors:” Layton Zimmer, “Angels’ Song in Lent” Dana Pattillo, “To Bush among the Sequoias” Gill Laker, “Regret” 4 Friday, August 29, 2003 Rebecca Kinzie Bastian, “Calf Snow” Mark Bergman, “They told us” Gerard Rochford, “CNN News from the Garden of Eden. (Iraq-10th April 2003)” Don Schaeffer, “Basic Majority Justice” 4 Thursday, August 28, 2003 David Watts, ”I Can't Tell If You've Killed Them, He Said” Stephen Cullis, “Tell My Mother Iraq” H.P. Chin, “Tell Me Why” Susan Harris, “What
I Wanted to Say to the Person Who Called Me Osama Bin Laden When I Was
Protesting for Peace” 4 Wednesday, August 27, 2003 amal gamal, “Children of the Camp” T.H. Shanklin, “Portents” Spencer Williams, “Selective Service Number I -” Grace Beeler, “What Would You Do?” 4 Tuesday, August 26, 2003
Susan Azar Porterfield, “Basma’s Baby” Antelope, aka Anatole
Zukerman, “Epidemic”
Naomi Lazard, “Elegy for the Twenty Skiers” Barbara Hazard, “October Jazz” Mike Hazard, “Media Dada’s Manifesto” 4 Monday, August 25, 2003 mark mulligan, “I will wake again in darkness” Abe Louise Young, “Unwind Them” Jay Mandeville, “War Is Jealous of the Bridegrooms” Dan Xenatro, “9,000 Poets” Alice Hodgkins, “One Tin Soldier” 4 Sunday, August 24, 2003 David Radavich, “Forgetting” Sarah Irving, “Conversations in Nablus” Elena Karina Byrne, “OF HUMANITY: WAR MASK” Frances Badgett, “Earth’s Poem to Mankind” 4 Saturday, August 23, 2003 Aki Sagawa, “Ashes of Flowers” Corinne Bailey, “Last Days” George Ogle, “Prayer for Our Time” Jim O’Loughlin, “Then there were no questions: 2/12/03” Ann Goldsmith, “RESPONSIVE READING” 4 Friday, August 22, 2003 Mary Jane Nealon, “Against Fire” Stevan Allred, “January 15, 1991” Dan Wilcox, “Baghdad/Albany” Jeremy Spohr, “FROM A CAFE, FIRST WEEK OF WAR” Sorrel North, “Blessing Meditation” 4 Thursday, August 21, 2003 Tony Lewis-Jones, “The Dead Will Rise” Melissa Noel Posod, “The Aged Generation” Kathleen George, “Britain's New Jerusalem. Anti-War March, 15th February 2003” 4 Wednesday, August 20, 2003 Julia Stein, “The Third Day of the Iraqi War” George Sparling, “Flaming Couch” Robbie Gamble, “God less America” Andrea Potos, “The Morning After the First Bombs Fall” 4 Tuesday, August 19, 2003 Kim Stafford, “A Prayer by the Tigris” Bruce Dethlefsen, "We Rise (for Zona Gale)" Diane Wyland Carle, “Mallard” 4 Monday, August 18, 2003 Todd Swift, “Urban Legends In Iraq About US Soldiers” paul haeder, “Di di Mao 1 – Young Guy Named Hal with M-16” Beth Coyote, “Mothers Do This” Gloria Vando, “CASUALTIES OF WAR” Jennifer Arin, “In the Beginning, In the End” 4 Sunday, August 17, 2003 David Ray, “HANDS” Ralph Pitman, “Winter Solstice” Sydney Bernard Smith, “Liars” mari stitt, “haiku” John Staffeld, “POETS WILL ALWAYS BE HEARD” 4 Saturday, August 16, 2003 John Bradley, “Mantra to Extinguish Words, Or When the Match Thinks It's Kerosene and Kerosene Thinks It's Wine” Bruce Niedt, “Ashes” Barbara LaMorticella, “There Was and There Was Not” Tom Foote, “Rachel” 4 Friday, August 15, 2003
George
Sparling, “Oil” Thomas R. Smith, “At the Start of the Gulf War” Marilyn Krysl, “TARGET” Carlen Arnett, “By the Idiot Thumb of War” Diana Anderson, “AFTERMATH” 4 Thursday, August 14, 2003 Alicia Ostriker, “FIX” alireza ghazveh, “Say That Poetry and Hyacinthes are rightful not Cluster bombs.” Michael Gehrke, “A Boy Cries” ronnie goodyer, “Lower Town” 4 Wednesday, August 13, 2003 Martin Galvin, “Still Life” Louis Faber, “PARALLELOGRAM" Robbie Gamble, “Iraqi Conscript” Cor van Schaik, “MULTIPLE CHOICE” Ann Sihler, “Hail to the Chief: American Crookery, 2003” 4 Tuesday, August 12, 2003 Sandro Fracasso, “Ball of Woe” Nenad Gilsic, “BAGDADSKA ELEGIJA / BAGHDADIAN ELEGY” William Deutscher, “Crusader” 4 Monday, August 11, 2003 Walt Abbott, “Moon Base” Molly Tenenbaum, “My Personal Peace March” Joan Dobbie, “OUR MOURNING.March 22, 2003” Arlene Distler, “Boys’ Play” Andrew West, “Prisoners of War” 4 Sunday, August 10, 2003 Tony Gloeggler, “1969” Bert Dugan, “Viet Nam War Memorial” Minnie Warburton, “Holy Days” Blair Allen, “As a Child” Maggie Gertz, “The Actions” 4 Saturday, August 9, 2003 Thomas Olsen, “ONE NIGHT SOUTH OF FRANCE” Jeffrey Alfier, “A Precedence for our Demand for Overseas Basing Rights” Leo Rogers, “All With None” denis dunn, “maybe the war is over” 4 Friday, August 8, 2003 Tom Page, “Lost Birds” Lorna Alkana, “Regrets in Ethics” Jeff Allison, “Governor’s Cup” jeff allison, (untitled) Robert Fronske, “Crosswords, Cross worlds” 4 Thursday, August 7, 2003 Lynn Martin, “After Reading Czeslaw Milosz” Corinne Bailey, “On Killing” Kaoru Kobashi, “The season of bombs” janelle barabash, “This is a War Report from A Voice in the Wilderness” Maureen Hurley, “SPEAK MEMORY” 4 Wednesday, August 6, 2003 Gary Blankenship, “Burials” Henry Braun, “Poetry Month 2003” Wolfgang May, “The War Around Us” Steven Finch, “Translator” Robert Rose, “Friendly fire” 4 Tuesday, August 5, 2003 Annette Allen, “Good Monsignor,” Tom Page, “The High School Kids” Rick Pierce, “Déjà Vu” Kasumi Lyfoung, “Stop Thinking” Mikele Rauch “Fois Gras” 4 Monday, August 4, 2003 Ernie Wormwood, “Body Count” roberto ferdani, “a talking blues” Dale Drakeford, “It Is Fitting” Jesse Bland, “Ghosts” John Gilgun, “Bushmaster” 4 Sunday, August 3, 2003 Tom Goff, “A Photograph of My Father in the Navy” Lizz Edwards, “The Bodies in Flanders Field” Maria Filoumeni Delliou, “Epitaph” willy bach, “Monumentality and Memorisation” 4 Saturday, August 2, 2003 Lisa Cox, “The Appointee” patricia ranzoni, “Patriot Act, Or Patricia’s Subversive Peace Rose Preserve” Samantha Mastridge, “The Point of Flower Arranging” 4 Friday, August 1, 2003 Carmen Giordano, “The Idiot” Jesse Minkert, (Statement
of Conscience) Walter C Goettlich Jr, “Fluidity of Truth” Frances-Marie Coke, “Dulce et Decorum est?” Toni Mirosevich, “Back Up”
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