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.


November, 2008

Izabel Sonia Ganz, A Birthday Card from Warsaw

Hadi Hajizadeh, Age 28, Wounded Soldier

Henry Howard, Age 50, Los Angeles, CA, Crosses in the Sand

Tasnim Qutait, Age 21, blue grievances

 

October, 2008

Red Cloud, let freedom ring

Benjamin Doty, Age 32, Minnesota Baby

Rodger Moody, Age 58, Eugene, Oregon Entering High School / Williamsport, Indiana, 1964

Randolph Nesbitt, Age 47, Aliso Viejo, California I Take This War Personal

Wesley Teal, Age 24, Iowa recollections for Brandon

 

September, 2008

Steve Vinson, Age 59, The Wounds: Then and Now

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




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