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Poems Against War: A Nov. 1 Reading at the Baltimore Ethical Society
Poems Against War Editor Gregg Mosson will be reading with Washington D.C. Poet Deanna Nikaido at the Baltimore Ethical Society on Saturday, Nov. 1, from 7 to 9 p.m. An open mike follows. Poems Against War: A Journal of Poetry and Action has been publishing anti-war and pro-peace poetry since 2003.
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Poems Against War Editor Gregg Mosson and Poet Deanna Nikaido are the featured poets (followed by an open mic) at the Baltimore Ethical Society Coffeehouse. The BES is located at 306 W Franklin Street, Suite 102 in Baltimore, Maryland.
The coffeehouse is an always lively and free evening--with coffee and treats provided. It features exceptional featured poets, an always interesting selection of readers at the open mic, and often music. This Saturday's Coffeehouse hosted by Rosemary Klein, executive director of The Maryland State Poetry & Literary Society. The event starts at 7 p.m.
Poems Against War: Ars Poetica (Wasteland Press, 2008) features poets wrestling with the Iraq war, social violence, and what art can do about it. It includes work from nationally-known Tony Hoagland, riot folk musician Ryan Harvey, Loch Raven Review editor Jim Doss, Maryland poet and Cave Canem member Reginald Harris, the poet Antler, and much more.
The magazine has 12 poems online selected from its seven issues since 2003 at www.poemsagainstwar.com.
SIGHT
by GREGG MOSSON
Image seen through a photographer’s still, mute frame:
An Iraqi Sunni grandmother, granddaughters flocked around her, grins—
her rooted teeth healthy and
glinting in the flinty light against
tan summer dust and her own purple headscarf;
Local Shiite militia were rebuffed
from confiscating her family’s house.
Such tales of tribal tug-of-war shall not end well:
Tomorrow walking back from market
assassins’ guns crater her robed body
in red clatter. None witnessed the incident,
notes an American soldier to the photographer.
Her Sunni heritage is not discernable
in an upper set of dentures
still on the dusty ground.
www.poemsagainstwar.com
The coffeehouse is an always lively and free evening--with coffee and treats provided. It features exceptional featured poets, an always interesting selection of readers at the open mic, and often music. This Saturday's Coffeehouse hosted by Rosemary Klein, executive director of The Maryland State Poetry & Literary Society. The event starts at 7 p.m.
Poems Against War: Ars Poetica (Wasteland Press, 2008) features poets wrestling with the Iraq war, social violence, and what art can do about it. It includes work from nationally-known Tony Hoagland, riot folk musician Ryan Harvey, Loch Raven Review editor Jim Doss, Maryland poet and Cave Canem member Reginald Harris, the poet Antler, and much more.
The magazine has 12 poems online selected from its seven issues since 2003 at www.poemsagainstwar.com.
SIGHT
by GREGG MOSSON
Image seen through a photographer’s still, mute frame:
An Iraqi Sunni grandmother, granddaughters flocked around her, grins—
her rooted teeth healthy and
glinting in the flinty light against
tan summer dust and her own purple headscarf;
Local Shiite militia were rebuffed
from confiscating her family’s house.
Such tales of tribal tug-of-war shall not end well:
Tomorrow walking back from market
assassins’ guns crater her robed body
in red clatter. None witnessed the incident,
notes an American soldier to the photographer.
Her Sunni heritage is not discernable
in an upper set of dentures
still on the dusty ground.
www.poemsagainstwar.com
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