At the risk of being accused of naivete, I do believe — I assert — that poetry can be a vehicle for change and peace amid war and other conflicts. Robert Bly and Denise Levertov influenced ...

It is not a novel, even less is it a poem, and still less an historical chronicle. War and Peace is what the author wished and was able to express in the form in which it is expressed.” ...

Poems with a darker outlook in the third edition ... all parts of the land, and peace & war, young & old — the wonder to me that I have carried it on to accomplish as essentially as it is ...

Homer wrote about the Trojan War; Alfred Lord Tennyson, the Crimean War; Walt Whitman, the Civil War; Wilfred Owen, World War I. Their poems are part of world history and culture. Poets should and ...