Old poems worth rereading in these days • Sandburg, Yeats, Ginsberg, Blake, Sitwell & Auden

Join the Discussion • Two Lines for Peace “Here is an idea: Write a two-line poem that will foster peace in the world.”   --Pixordia

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Elsewhere on the Web • “How can art help us now?” from The Boston Globe • “Poetry soothes the soul in these painful days” by Mary Schmich in The Chicago Tribune • “Measuring Words' Worth” from The Los Angeles Times • Four poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson, Marianne Moore, Carlos Drummond de Andrade & Czeslaw Milosz, collected by Robert Pinsky in Slate • “Auden on Bin Laden” by Eric McHenry in Slate • “Poems for the Time,” anthology collected by Alicia Ostriker in Moby Lives

Our poet laureate, Billy Collins, answered an emphatic “no” when asked whether he will write a poem about the events of September 11, 2001... but many other people have found themselves compelled to respond to the terrorist attack in writing. In the last two weeks we have seen a steady outpouring of poems; they've arrived by email, been posted in our Forum & been said at readings all over the world. We published some of these in the few days immediately after the 11th, beginning with my co-Guide Bob Holman's eyewitness “Cement Cloud.” Here we bring you more of the growing collection. In your grief, anger, consternation, confusion or resolve, we hope these poems offer you comfort, clarity or grace...

Margery Snyder

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• “Firefighter's Prayer” by David Cochrane
• “A Little Ramshackle Shack” by Daniel Moore (Abd al-Hayy)
• “Ghost Dance” by Jim Cohn
• “Will It Be Heard” by Larry Jaffe
• “Poem for Sophie, Daisy, Bob & Elizabeth” by Roland Legiardi-Laura
• “I Saw You Empire State Building” by Edwin Torres
• “WTC 9/11” by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
• “On the Ninety-Ninth Floor” by Shann Palmer
• “When the Skyline Crumbles” by Eliot Katz
• “Wage Peace” by Judyth Hill
  
  
• “Cement Cloud” by Bob Holman
• “Palestine” by Lorna Dee Cervantes
  
  
• From the poets in our Forum

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