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, August 15, 2007
Gary Lawless, My Kind of Soldier
On the Buffalo Poetics listserv, CA Conrad, Stephen Vincent, and others have been talking war and the impact on our soldiers. From Stephen Vincent's post, we learned from a Washington Post story that Gary Lawless, the owner of Gulf of Maine Books in Brunswick, Maine, is conducting writer's workshops for war veterans, in his words, "to get their stories literally out of their bodies, so they're not carrying them around by themselves." Thank you, Gary Lawless.
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