Topic: Poems Against War: Music & Heroes out now

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harryfred Posted – 8/16/2007 10:46:23 PM | show profile
Poems Against War: A Journal of Poetry and Action
Music & Heroes (Volume Six: 2007-2008)
ISBN13: 978-1-60047-115-5
Chapbook: 48 Pgs.
www.wastelandpress.net/paw.html


Poems Against War: Music & Heroes features poets tackling the issue of war at the dawn of the 21st century through investigating the interplay of music, violence, change, war, and song. This is volume six of the magazine and the first issue available nationally and worldwide through conventional distribution.

This annual journal?s closing section ?Heroes? features poets investigating similar issues through the lens of heroes and heroic action, past and present. Included here are new poems from Antler, Grace Cavalieri, Marcus Colasurdo, Dike Okoro, and more.

Contributors will be receiving their copies by Sept. 1. Peace!
harryfred Posted – 9/14/2007 2:46:42 PM | show profile
Update
You can now find the magazine at www.poemsagainstwar.com or through any book retailer.

A nice article on four books of recent war poety by an Iraq and Afghanistan U.S. veteran has been posted by the Poetry Foundation at:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/feature.html?id=180043&message=

Here's a review of U.S. Iraq veteran Brian Turner's book "Here, Bullet" with links to his poems:

"Shoot Me If You Can: A Soldier Reports Back From Iraq"
http://baltimore.indymedia.org/newswire/display/13592/index.php
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