Poets Against War continues the tradition of socially engaged poetry by creating venues for poetry as a voice against war, tyranny and oppression.

How to Create a Poetry Reading

We encourage you to set up your own public readings of poetry against the war, contact the press in your city or town, and make the heavens sing with the power of this protest. Use this page to schedule a candlelight vigil in your area that others will be able to sign up for. You must read this page carefully and enter all required info below.

Here's how to make your poetry reading against war a success:

1. Email your friends to invite them to your reading. Ask them to email their friends as well. Other Poets Against the War and members of your community will also be able to come to your reading. So you will probably be joined by many others in your community. But if you bring your friends, then you'll be sure to have a good-sized group.

2. Contact your local media and tell them about the readings you plan to attend.

3. Take photos -- if you have a digital camera. Crop and resize your photos to fit on a Web page and send them in .jpg format to info@poetsagainstwar.net

How-to Guide for creating a reading

Want help with the poetry reading you're planning? We've put together a quick How To Guide for organizing a reading. Need more promotion tools? Here is a flier that you can print out and fill in for your reading: (Word file).

Submit a Reading for listing on the PAW web site:

Note: Please make sure you enter the Date and Time in the right format, or you'll get an error message and will need to retype the information.

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