PORT TOWNSEND — A local poet says he’ll appear on a Cable News Network broadcast from New York City early Monday morning discussing his and other American writers’ anti-war poems.
Sam Hamill, founding editor and co-founder of Copper Canyon Press in Port Townsend, said Friday he’s also working on small poetry anthologies for Playboy and The New Yorker magazines.
“It’s kind of a remarkable moment,” said Hamill of the current political situation and the anti-war efforts of many American writers. “I’m a poetry historian, and there has never been anything like this.”
Hamill was invited but declined to attend a Feb. 12 symposium on Poetry and the American Voice at the White House.
First Lady Laura Bush canceled the symposium after officials feared some of the invited poets would turn the literary event into a political forum.
Hamill reacted by starting Poets Against the War, an Internet Web site.
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