the event organizer, San Francisco poet and publisher Michael Rothenberg, mentioned that he'd begun hearing from poets who would not be participating. "Imagine," he said. "We're kicking around all these possibilities and there are place where poets can't do anything public at all. They'd be arrested--or worse."
My brain flashed, as one hopes it will do at moments such as these. "What if we stand outside the embassies of some of those countries and read the silenced poets' poems so they can be part of 100 Thousand Poets for Change too?"
from Foreign Policy in Focus: Poets Stand Up
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