Poets Against the War urgently needs funds to pay for ads in key U.S. newspapers on President's Day, February 17th, expressing our profound opposition to the Bush administration's drive toward war in Iraq. We believe that the world is poised on the knife-edge of a decision between war and peace, and it is conceivably the passionate, miraculous efforts of a growing throng of peace-loving poets that may be able to make part of the difference.
Since January 30, poets in many countries have joined an upsurge of conscience and compassion, submitting poems to the Poets Against the War web site, organizing hundreds of anti-war poetry readings around the world, joining with millions of others in vigils, processions, prayers and intercessions, lobbying and rallying for peace. At no time in history have so many poets spoken in such a large chorus.
Here is the text of the proposed newspaper ad:
Poets Against the War
In the face of so much opposition from U.N. members, despite the disapproval of the vast majority of citizens of the world, in defiance of the advice of its own intelligence agencies, and contrary to both common sense and fundamental notions of morality, the Bush administration seems to be headed for war in Iraq.
Over the past two weeks, over 5,000 poets have submitted poems or personal statements to register their opposition to this war. In doing so, they honor a long and rich tradition of thoughtful and moral opposition by poets and other artists to senseless and murderous policies, including those of our own government. At no time in history have so many poets spoken in such a large chorus.
We call upon the Bush administration to halt its headlong rush toward war, to heed the voices of the people of the world, and to seek peaceful means of resolving conflicts in company with the world community.
Posted by Brian Stefans at February 10, 2003 10:49 AMMy response: http://www.fglaysher.com/NYTpr.htm
In predictable fashion The New York Times Book Review and much
of the media have chosen to support the more radical and supposedly
"enlightened" viewpoint on the tiff with The White House and Laura Bush.
A more misguided and wrong-headed response could
not exist. It's so fraught with cliches I hardly know where to start.
In general, it's a pity that Sam Hamill, and others who think like
him, demonstrate once again that poetry, as defined by them
at least, indeed doesn't matter, so complete is their inability
to think seriously about the threat represented by Saddam Hussein
and his weapons of mass destruction. Their ridiculous pose of mounting
the barricades is really quite contemptible. It is clear that the crowd
alluded to by Mr. Hamill summons poetry to their own radical
distortions and agendas, achieving only a further marginalization
of an art that has all too often, among some, lost allegiance to
the civilizing values of peace, which require defense never more so
than now.
Far from "the conscience of our culture," such poets have
no sense of history and the deep obligations of our country, to
ourselves and to the world, which the burden of power lays
upon us at this juncture. President Bush is right to call the United
Nations to live up to its founding Charter, to be a common refuge
of defense, "to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war,"
not merely consultation, reduced to babel. At this time of national
and international crisis, poets who betray their nation, art, and
humanity merit no audience at The White House.
For a different view of the issues involved, I invite your readers
to consider my essay "The Victory of World Governance":
www.fglaysher.com/WorldGov.htm
Frederick Glaysher
www.fglaysher.com
Earthrise Press
The Poets Against the War are not only being rude and showing bad manners, but are very upsetting to many American poets. Several of us have posted the other side at Poets for the War: http://www.poetsforthewar.org.
Posted by: Charles L. Weatherford on February 13, 2003 05:46 PMThe poets whose poems are posted on Poetsagainstthewar.org do not speak the sentiments of all poets. In my opinion, any poet who truly thinks clearly and knows history knows that tyranny must be conquered for peace to prosper. I hope your readers will also read some of the poems on poetsforthewar.org.
Posted by: Linda Pergolizzi Gallagher on February 22, 2003 07:50 PMVery nice website
Posted by: Mike on November 29, 2003 07:29 AMLet's take a moment to reexamine that. What we've done here is create two variables. The first variable is in the Heap, and we're storing data in it. That's the obvious one. But the second variable is a pointer to the first one, and it exists on the Stack. This variable is the one that's really called favoriteNumber, and it's the one we're working with. It is important to remember that there are now two parts to our simple variable, one of which exists in each world. This kind of division is common is C, but omnipresent in Cocoa. When you start making objects, Cocoa makes them all in the Heap because the Stack isn't big enough to hold them. In Cocoa, you deal with objects through pointers everywhere and are actually forbidden from dealing with them directly.
Posted by: Justinian on January 18, 2004 05:22 PM