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. 

As of September 2004, our team of volunteer editors has reviewed more than 22,000 poems. We can't showcase every poem, but on this page you'll find a monthly posting of poems or statements that have been suggested to us by poets and editors around the world.


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

Amy Solomon-Minarchi, Olympia, WA, Age 25, My Husband Is a Sniper

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, Age 22, And he Lands in a Place

Randolph Nesbitt, Age 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

Gwilynn Williams, Masao Okabe's Frottage Sites


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



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