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Poets on Peace #9 - Torn For Peace - Wynne McClure & Paul Bither

Wynne McClure's latest publication is her chapbook from

Foothills Publishing Springfed Series, The Hidden Self. She is also in a recently published anthology The Span I Will Cross by the Five In The Afternoon poets, as well as The Pinnacle Hill Review, the anthology of Rochester Poets, and Poetic Visions of the Athenaeum poetry group edited by Gary Lehmann and published by Tamafyhr Mountain Poetry (tmpoetry.com). She has been published in Hazmat Review, past Rochester Poetry Society chapbooks, and the 2003 issue of RIT's Signatures magazine in which she was awarded first prize. She was also awarded Honorable Mention in Miller's Pond Louella Cady Lamphier Contest. Her internet publications include creekwalker.com, miller'spondpoetry.com, puddinghouse.com, poetsagainstthe war.com and voicesinwartime.org. Wynne will soon be published

in Voices Of the Gallery, a publication of the Memorial Art

Gallery of the University of Rochester.

Paul Bither has had a life-long interest in writing, trained as a

journalist, and has recently been working in poetry. He has been published in creekwalker.com, Signatures, poetsagainstthewar.com, and Poetic Visions.

From the Book:

Under Investigation Wynne McClure

I hear the new Patriot Act

announced.

It gives librarians

the charge to report "suspects"

they discover among the books.

Laura canceled the

White House Poetry Reading

when the word "peace" crept in.

Does this mean I could

be interrogated for reading

a peace poem aloud in our library?

Perhaps I could produce

papers proving I've been here

since the 1600's. Is William Penn

one of our patriots, or was he born

too early for our sort of freedom?

What of Washington, Franklin,

Adams, Jefferson, our "Declaration"

defying

an earlier insane George?

The Other Foot Paul Bither

For what did my forebear shiver

at Valley Forge.

Is it now all gone?

We fought for rights,

now we oppress

sucked into the sluice of endless and

mounting retaliation

Can we invent a new system of nature

in which seeds produce

not after their kind?

We learned our lessons well . . .

no messy gas chambers this time

-bad publicity.

Now torture for democracy

has become a good tool

when used offshore.

Change is not easy.

We who were free, loving

peace and brotherhood must

now learn to appreciate chains,

barbed wire, bombs and bullets.

Thought must be controlled.

Black is now white.

The hob-nailed boot of terror

is now my own

my beloved country.

Hand-stitched chapbook.

Eight Dollars ($8.00).

ISBN 0-941053-49-0

TO ORDER Torn For Peace ON-LINE

To order through mail click here.

Thank you for your support!


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