Steve Fesenmaier writes \” When Sam Hamill, a poet and founder of Copper Canyon Press in Port Townsend, Wash., was invited to a poetry symposium by Laura Bush last month, his response was to send e-mail messages to 50 friends and colleagues asking them for antiwar poems to send to Mrs. Bush. In four days he received 1,500 responses.Here\’s The NYTimes Story \”
Meanwhile, Billy Collins opposes war with Iraq, he\’s the U.S. poet laureate. He says he finds it increasingly difficult to keep politics out of his official job as literary advocate.
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