Great Article in the Washington Post today

Poetry takes front and center during this week of protest against the Iraq war (or any war for that matter). Great programming throughout the weekend. Check out www.splitthisrock.org for more details and visit www.busboysandpoets.com for the complete schedule of events.

David Montgomery of the Post writes: 'The politicians have had their say, and the veterans, the military families, the kids getting arrested in the streets this week -- now it's the poets' turn".

"People in this society are starved for meaning," he says. "In a time of war, the government divorces language from meaning. . . . They drain the blood from words. Poets can put the blood back into words." Martin Espada -poet and professor at University of Massachusetts