INTERNATIONAL DAY OF POETRY, SEPTEMBER 11

"We poets have been attacked for the stance we have taken. We have been attacked for speaking out. We have been accused of being unpatriotic because we do not believe that compounding murder is the best possible response to murder. It grieves us to see our nation's (or any nation's) children turned into killers before they have had the opportunity to study war and its vicious and inevitable consequences."

Excerpted from Open Letter from Sam Hamill

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