White House forum called off after poets plan to protest.(PAGE ONE)

From: The Washington Times (Washington, DC) | Date: January 31, 2003 | Copyright information

Byline: Joseph Curl, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

The White House has called off a poetry symposium to have been hosted by first lady Laura Bush after one poet sought to use the event to protest military action against Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

The event, scheduled for Feb. 12, was to celebrate the works of Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes and Emily Dickinson. But one poet who declined the White House's invitation sent an e-mail to other invitees and poets asking them to "make February 12 a day of Poetry Against the War."

"We will compile an anthology of protest to be ...

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