2003/02/07

Poets Against the War
Dennis Kelly writes: Please find attached a link to "Baghdad Haiku" -- my protest poem concerning the approaching war in Iraq.

Sam Hamill, the publisher of Copper Canyon Press here in Seattle/Port Townsend, has gathered together a group of poets to protest this inhuman assault on innocent mothers & children. Among the poets is the Poet Laureate of the US. Mrs. Bush had to cancel her poetry tea party because the protesting poets.

I know that NWU [that's the National Writers Union] has its hands full now with many important problems, but I ask you to at least consider this issue & contemplate what's coming down.

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