On Poetry: Poets, writers can offer their words for world peace - Norwich, CT - Norwich Bulletin:
By A.S. Maulucci
For The Norwich Bulletin
Posted Jan 22, 2010 @ 07:48 PM
"After every Christmas and Martin Luther King Day, I start giving more thought to world peace and what poets can do to help bring it about. The answer, of course, is to write more poetry which helps further the cause of universal brotherhood and encourages people everywhere to bring an end to war and other brutal global conflicts.
Many groups of poets and other writers are now contributing their artistic talents to this great goal. One of the largest and most active of these organizations is Poets Against the War, which, according to a statement on its Web site (www.poetsagainstthewar.org), was born when Sam Hamill “asked about 50 fellow poets to ‘reconstitute a Poets Against the War movement like the one organized to speak out against the war in Vietnam ... to speak up for the conscience of our country and lend your names to our petition against this war’ by submitting poems of protest that he would send to the White House.”"
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