My Response to Poets Against the War
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"Poets Pit Pens Against Swords" by Martin Arnold.
February 6, 2003
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/06/books/06BOOK.html
PRESS RELEASE - Feb. 6, 2003
My Response to Poets Against the War:
http://www.fglaysher.com/NYTpr.htm
In predictable fashion The New York Times Book Review and much
of the media have chosen to support the more radical and supposedly
"enlightened" viewpoint on the tiff with The White House and Laura Bush.
A more misguided and wrong-headed response could not exist. It’s
so fraught with cliches I hardly know where to start. In general, it’s
a pity that Sam Hamill, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and others who think
like them, demonstrate once again that poetry, as defined by them
at least, indeed doesn’t matter, so complete is their inability
to think seriously about the threat represented by Saddam Hussein
and his weapons of mass destruction. Their ridiculous pose of mounting
the barricades is really quite contemptible. It is clear that the crowd
alluded to by Mr. Hamill summons poetry to their own radical
distortions and agendas, achieving only a further marginalization
of an art that has all too often, among some, lost allegiance to
the civilizing values of peace, which require defense never more so
than now.
Far from "the conscience of our culture," such poets have
no sense of history and the deep obligations of our country, to
ourselves and to the world, which the burden of power lays
upon us at this juncture. President Bush is right to call the United
Nations to live up to its founding Charter, to be a common refuge
of defense, "to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war,"
not merely consultation, reduced to a crumbling Tower of Babel. At
this time of national and international crisis, poets who betray their
nation, art, and humanity merit no audience at The White House.
For a different view of the issues involved, I invite your readers
to consider my essay "The Victory of World Governance":
http://www.fglaysher.com/WorldGov.htm
Frederick Glaysher
www.fglaysher.com
Earthrise Press
P. O. Box 81842
Rochester, MI 48308-1842 USA
My comments or postings of my Press Release
The Penny Post by Andrei Codrescu
New York Downtown Express, NY - Apr 15, 2003 (response)http://www.datelinealabama.com/article/2003/02/22/3862_war_art.php3 (quoted)
http://brothersjudd.blogspot.com/
http://www.cosmoetica.com/TOP48-DES45.htm
http://inthesetimes.com/comments.php?id=67_0_4_0_C
http://misnomer.dru.ca/activism/ (posted twice, twice deleted)
http://www.chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=1501&catcode=24
http://www.anacortesonline.com/letters.tpl#65
http://www.martinblyth.co.uk/iraqcrisis.htm
http://66.246.23.2/~eolsen/archives/2003/02/02/104031.php
http://www.godofthemachine.com/archives/00000317.html
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000152.html
The Victory of World Governance
ARTICLES and LETTERS of INTEREST / RESPONSE
Poets Against the War (Sam Hamill)
http://www.poetsagainstthewar.org./
("12,000 poets and counting - Click here to submit a poem")My Response / Press Release emailed to over 1,500
literary magazines, editors, & bookstores, including:Student Strike for Books Not Bombs! LIST OF PARTICIPATING CAMPUSES
http://www.nyspc.net/strikelist.html 3-10-03Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s SPEAK OUT!
staff@citylights.com 3-10-03"Anti-war Poetry Readings Everywhere on March 5!" donate@poetsagainstthewar.org on 2-22-03
Submitted to Sam Hamill’s website on 2-17-03
Emailed to info@poetsagainstthewar.org on 2-13-03
***** March 7, 2003, 11:20 a.m. Nonfighting Words
Poets against the war. By Mark Goldblatt
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-goldblatt030703.asp***** War of Words By Edward J. Renehan Jr.
TechCentralStation.com | March 5, 2003
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=6466***** POETS AGAINST THE WAR Great for Sam Hamill’s Career, but Good for Poetry?
Christopher Frizzelle
http://www.thestranger.com/current/books.html***** JUST SHUT UP by Neal Pollack
http://www.thestranger.com/2003-02-20/feature.html***** The Poets vs. The First Lady: The appalling manners and adolescent partisanship of our antiwar poets.
J. Bottum 02/17/2003, Volume 008, Issue 22
http://www.weeklystandard.com/content/public/articles/000/000/002/228qjtzx.asp***** The Paranoid-Poet Planet: Rhetorical overkill and collateral damage to the language of political debate.
James Bowman
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-bowman021203.asp***** The night of the armies of the poets
Suzanne Fields
http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/fields.htm
Google’s News Server: Poets Against the War
http://news.google.com/news?q=%22Poets+Against+the+War%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=nn
Europe/The Americas Friday - 07 March 2003
US Students, Poets Join Anti-war Cry
http://www.riyadhdaily.com.sa/cgi-bin/display_assay.pl?issue=Friday+-+07+March+2003§ion=Europe/The+Americas&id=30284Poets Present Anti-War Poems to Congress
By ELIZABETH WOLFE
http://myopr.com/display/ap/Entertainment/d7pj7lto0.txtLaura Bush Weak in American Poetry 2003-02-24
http://english.pravda.ru/main/2003/02/24/43642.htmlEchoes of past from web poets
By Jack Malvern
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,5461-590828,00.htmlPoetic License Rejected by First Lady, Poets Spread Anti-War Message Across Country
By Dean Schabner
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/Entertainment/iraq_antiwarpoets030218.html
Ambiguity Is a Guest at a Readers’ Evening
By KELEFA SANNEH
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/19/arts/19FISH.html
Zen poet’s voice of dissent heard by anti-war literati
By CHRIS McGANN SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/109071_poets18.shtml
Bards Not Bombs in NYC by Joy Press February 19 - 25, 2003
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0308/press2.php
Port Townsend poet taking dispute with White House to CNN
2003-02-16 by KEVEN DREWS
http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/sited/story/html/121693
Poets Admonish White House for ’Disinvitation’
Fox News Monday, February 17, 2003
http://foxnews.com/story/0,2933,78794,00.htmlPoets Against the War
By Joe Knowles 2.14.03
http://inthesetimes.com/comments.php?id=67_0_4_0_CSUBJECT TO DEBATE by Katha Pollitt Posted February 6, 2003
Poetry Makes Nothing Happen? Ask Laura Bush
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030224&s=pollittMobilizing a Theater of Protest. Again. By JULIE SALAMON
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/06/arts/06PROT.htmlA Song of Themselves By LEONARD GARMENT
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/08/opinion/08GARM.html?pagewanted=all&position=topU.S. Poet Laureate Opposes War with Iraq
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0206-07.htmPoets for Peace
100 Poets Against The War
United Kingdom - Poets Against the War
Story in Chicago PoetrySeattle Times - January 30
NY Times - January 31
Toronto Globe and Mail - February 1
BBC News - February 1
The Guardian - February 1
USA Today - February 1
Seattle Post-Intelligencer - February 1
Minnesota Star Tribune - February 1
Sydney Morning Herald - February 1
Yahoo-Associated Press - February 1
Press Release - Readings in Washington DC, 2/12 (pdf) - February 9
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Poets Speak Against War - Hartford Courant (Feb 13, 2003)
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Miller to Lead Anti-War Poetry Protest - Associated Press (Feb 13, 2003)
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War slam - Baltimore Sun. (Feb 12, 2003)
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White House: Quote the peace poets nevermore - Detroit Free Press (Feb 12, 2003)
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A subversive celebration - Boston Globe (Feb 12, 2003)
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A less than poetic assault - Washington Times (Feb 11, 2003)
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Poets to protest White House action - Boston Globe (Feb 10, 2003)
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White House cancels poetry symposium in response to protest - World Socialist Web Site (Feb 10, 2003)
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Separating poetry from war politics - Boston Globe (Feb 10, 2003)
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Vexing Verse - Wall St. Journal (Feb 5, 2003)
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Bushes get a taste of poetic justice - Capital Times (Feb 4, 2003)
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American voice bound - Contra Costa Times (Jan 31, 2003)
