[Newspoetry] Newspoetry won't play White House

[Robert Porter]

Horrified by the prospect of her poetry symposium becoming "politicized", 
Laura Bush has indefinitely postponed the event:

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0130-03.htm

Poet Sam Hamill, who issued the call for antiwar poetry, say he received 
over 1,500 submissions.

Emily Dickenson, Langston Hughes, and Walt Whitman are dead and could not 
be reached for comment.