Poet symposium at the White House about Langston Hughes, Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinsonb was cancelled b/c they thought the poets would be impolitic abou the war.

The poets respond:
I am sure the person who put my name on the list is looking for a job-Sam Hamil
(he compiled poems against the war, a new online anthology- found here
"The abrupt Cancellation of the symposium by the White House confirms my suspicions that the Bush adminstartion is not interested in Poetry...."- Rita Dove
(who writes about Racial and Gender Issues, has been working on peace and made it to the Poet Laurete in 1993-1995)
"...The hideopus use of Langague that emanantes from this White House. The lying, the Orwellian Euphmisism" -Phillip Levine
(winner of a pulitser, active against Vietnam)

dont fuck with poets, they will slash you