Further thoughts on the cultural labor of poetry and art. Not merely "is it good?," but "what has it accomplished?"...reviews of recent poetry collections; selected poems and art dealing with war/peace/social change; reviews of poetry readings; links to political commentary (particularly on conflicts in the Middle East); youtubed performances of music, demos, and other audio-video nuggets dealing with peaceful change, dissent and resistance.
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
The Car Wreck of War
Another language salvo in the war against this war, brought to you by the Sidewalk Blogger in Hawaii. Every dollar that is spent on this war, inescapably, takes away money that could have been spent on children, infrastructure, our futures. It's more than tragic, but, as David Ray once wrote, "our leaders were born in the wrong country to be war criminals."
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