Did anyone catch the Simpson's 300th episode last night? After Lisa won the state spelling bee and was presented with the microphone, she thought to herself, "better make the most of this," then grabbed the mic and yelled "FREE TIBET!"

I wonder how many of the poets on that list would be able to resist a similar outburst if given an audience at the whitehouse. It's funny. As a class, the Bush administration can't trust "poets" whatsoever.

Too bad our laurete isn't an elected post. I would love to get Amiri Baraka up in that motherfucker.

i don't think the government is chasing after poets. it seems marginal and sad after real people being in the streets this weekend.

Poets are real people too!

I don't think of poets as being 'marginal' at all -- Poets Against the War took out a quarter-page ad on the NY Times Op-Ed page with the money they received from donors.

I have been working on the PAW website for the past ten days or so and I had the honor of having dinner with Sam Hamill and the other volunteers this weekend. One of the things that really struck everyone was how much almost-instant response there was to this call for poems, and how wonderful many if not most of the poems are.

From a tech perspective, watching a living breathing large database emerge from one good idea and the help of a couple of programmers has also been equally fascinating.

Gary Lenhart's Irrelevant
from the paw site says it best:
I fear that my protest is irrelevant
as France, Germany or Martin Luther King
Irrelevant as Methodists or Episcopalian ministers
Irrelevant as the Congressional delegation from Vermont
Irrelevant as the voices of Nelson Mandela and Jimmy Carter
Irrelevant as Iraqi infants waiting to be incinerated
Irrelevant as Gandhi or
reasonable proponents of containment
Irrelevant as the legitimacy of the United Nations
Irrelevant as governments on the American dole
Irrelevant as the Kurds who will soon be sold out
Irrelevant as logic, justice, or intellection
Irrelevant as the U.S. Constitution
or the democratic chants of Walt Whitman
Irrelevant as the victims of Hiroshima, Dresden, Nagasaki, Hanoi
Irrelevant as truth or beauty
Irrelevant as love
Irrelevant as the sordid deals between Saddam Hussein and Donald Rumsfeld
Irrelevant Irrelevant Irrelevant

http://poetsagainstthewar.org/displaypoem.asp?AuthorID=6108

mos def? poet?
i mean i totally recognize the rest of the poets as "poets-most-noteworthy" and as just plain awesome poets [read sharon olds 'the dead and the living' for a taste of what good poetry is all about]. but mos def?

please.

There is no way I'm taking up the What Is Poetry gauntlet you've thrown down there David, there is no way!

awww...

i'm just playin!!!

well, i MEANT it... but i was only playing...

=)

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