Poets against the war
Administrator posted this on 2006-07-05 via citizensagainstterror.net
An event put together in 2003 in answer to a call by Sam Hamill, a poet who had been invited by Laura Bush to a White House poetry symposium on February 12; Hamill’s response was to send an e-mail to 50 friends asking them for antiwar poems to send to Mrs. Bush. In four days he received 1,500 poems. Laura Bush subsequently cancelled the symposium, saying she “did not believe that poetry should be used for political purposes.” Hamill then called for nationwide anti-war poetry readings against the war.
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