Archive for April 17th, 2008

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

"No Wound Deserves a War"

Speaking of whether or not poetry can change the world, I couldn’t help but repost Salah al Hamdani’s “Baghdad, Mon Amour” as our poem of the week. If any one poet can make a difference, it’s someone like al Hamdani, who began writing in his twenties, while imprisoned for his opposition to Saddam Hussein’s [...]

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