FREE DOWNLOAD: Babylon Burning: 9/11 five years on
POETS FOR RED CROSS: 9/11 FIVE YEARS ON
Nearly 90 poets from around the world have contributed to Babylon Burning: 9/11 five years on, an anthology of poems reflecting on direct and indirect consequences of 9/11. These poems aim for more than pious hand-wringing. Poetry editor Todd Swift notes: "Auden said that 'poetry makes nothing happen', but we think it can, and we'd like to prove it." The anthology is free to download, but readers are requested to donate to the Red Cross.Here's the poem I contributed:
December 15, 2003Nth Position is a free London-based online magazine/ezine with politics & opinion, travel writing, fiction & poetry, reviews & interviews, and some high weirdness from around the world. Read, subscribe, submit: nthposition.com
Kicked Saddam Hussein in the head today -
then stepped on his neck,
sodden in the snow.
Hundreds of Saddams on the bus to work -
furrowed brows and bushy beards
crowded public transit.
Front-page real estate consumed -
America's most wanted
rush-hour reading.
Beard shaved off already -
old newsprint plastered
by slush to a stoop.
J. R. Carpenter