Peace & Justice Poets

On the Web:

Academy of American Poets. Helps find selected poems & biographical information for individual poets.

Gwendolyn Brooks.

Langston Hughes.

Denise Levertov.

Philip Levine.

Alix Olson.

Poets Against the War (2003). Portal to an incredible treasure-trove of anti-war poems in many languages.

Adrienne Rich.

Muriel Rukeyser.

Patrice Vecchione.

In the Library:

Forché, Carolyn (ed.) Against Forgetting: 20th-C. Poetry of Witness (NY: Norton, 1993).

Pollitt, Katha. "Poetry makes nothing happen? Ask Laura Bush," Nation (2/24/03):9.