Who is in the Voices in Wartime film

Chris Abani Nigerian war survivor, human rights activist and refugee, author of three poetry collections and two novels, recipient of the 2001 PEN USA Freedom-to-Write Award and a Lannan Literary Fellowship. Read the interview Sinan Antoon An Iraqi poet, novelist, filmmaker and translator, published a collection of poems Mawshur Muballal bil-Huroob (A Prism; Wet with War) and a novel, I`jam. Read the interview Rachel Bentham Poet and novelist from Bristol, England, is widely published in the small press. Her stories and dramas are often broadcast on the BBC. Read the interview Sampurna Chattarji Born in Africa, she is award-winning poet and short-story writer. Her work has appeared in Poetry India: Millennium Voices and 100 Poets Against the War, among others. She lives in Mumbai (Bombay), India. Read Chattarji's poetry David Connolly A poet who lives in South Boston and served with the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment in the Vietnam war. He is author of the poetry collection Lost in America. Read the interview Emily Dickinson 1830-1886. Reclusive and influential Massachusetts poet. Read Dickinson's poetry Ali Habash Iraqi poet who lives in Baghdad. Read Habash's poetry Pamela Talene Hale Poet from Houston and Seattle. Read the interview Sam Hamill Author of many volumes of poetry, essays, and translations, co-founder of Poets Against the War, editor of Copper Canyon Press. Read the interview Chris Hedges A longtime New York Times war correspondent who covered conflicts in places such as El Salvador, the Balkans, and the Persian Gulf. He shared a 2002 Pulitzer Prize for coverage of global terrorism. He is author of War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning. Read the interview Dominic Hibberd Author of Wilfred Owen: A New Biography and several other books about poets and poetry of the First World War. He lives in the United Kingdom. Read the interview Marie Howe Poet and professor at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. Langston Hughes 1902-1967. Eloquent and influential U.S. poet, essayist, playwright, storyteller, and activist for peace and social justice. Read Hughes' poetry Randall Jarrell 1914-1965. U.S. poet, soldier, and control tower operator during the Second World War. His poetry book, Little Friend, Little Friend, bitterly and dramatically documented the intense fears and moral struggles of young soldiers. Read Jarrell's poetry Lieutenant General William Lennox, Jr. Superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point. General Lennox, wrote his PhD dissertation on American war poetry. Read the interview Peter Levitt Poet, author, translator, and lifelong peace activist from the U.S., now living in British Columbia, Canada. Read Levitt's poetry and personal statement Paul Mysliwiec U.S. Army First Lieutenant who led his unit through the invasion and first months of occupation of Iraq in Spring 2003. Read the interview Marilyn Nelson Poet Laureate of Connecticut and professor at University of Connecticut Read Nelson's poetry Wilfred Owen 1893-1918. Soldier poet and British Army officer during the First World War, killed in action a week before the Armistice in 1918. Read about Owen Sherman Pearl Poet and art activist who lives in Santa Monica, California. Read the interview Jonathan Schell The Nation's peace and disarmament correspondent, and the author of The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People and The Fate of the Earth. Read the interview Alexandra Sanyal Young poet from Boston. She contributed a poem to the Poets Against the War web site when she was eight years old. Read the interview Siegfried Sassoon 1886-1967. Siegfried Sassoon served as a soldier in the British Army during the First World War. Known for his bravery in battle, he was a friend and mentor to fellow poet Wilfred Owen. Read about Sassoon Hashim Shafiq Iraqi poet who lives in Baghdad. Read Shafiq's poetry Jonathan Shay Psychiatrist for the United States Department of Veterans Affairs in Boston, Shay treats combat veterans with severe psychological injuries and is the author of Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character, and Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming. Read the interview Jon Stallworthy Well-known expert on war poetry at the University of Oxford and author of a biography of Wilfred Owen and editor of The Oxford Book of War Poetry. Read the interview Todd Swift Canadian poet, essayist, screenwriter and international literary activist, editor of 100 Poets Against the War published in Britain in March 2003. Read the interview Antonieta Villamil Colombian poet, editor and translator. International Poetry Award "Gastón Baquero 2001" with her book Los Acantilados del Sueño. Read the interview Emily Warn Poet, teacher, and activist; author of The Novice Insomniac and three other collections of poetry; co-founder of Poets Against the War. Read the interview Craig White NBC cameraman embedded with the 3rd Infantry Division, one of the first U.S. Army units to enter Baghdad in April 2003, witness to a horrific firefight as he was trapped for hours under a bridge in Baghdad. Read the interview Walt Whitman 1819-1892. Groundbreaking U.S. poet, writer, teacher, journalist, and Civil War nurse. He is the author of Leaves of Grass. Read Whitman's poetry Saul Williams Hip-hop poet-preacher-actor-rapper-singer-musician "hyphen-artist extraordinare" from Los Angeles. Terry Tempest Williams Author, naturalist, and environmental activist, a visionary and passionate advocate for the preservation of the wilderness in the American West. Read Williams' poetry and essay

 

 

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Voices in Wartime uses the words of Wilfred Owen, considered by many to be the greatest poet of World War I, as a guide: “Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity… All a poet can do today is warn. That is why true Poets must be truthful.”

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