Poems in the Voices in Wartime Film

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 Chris Abani
Stabat Mater (text)
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Break A Leg (text)
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 Marilyn Nelson
Unrhymed Peace Sonnet (text)
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 Sinan Antoon
Wrinkles; on the Wind's Forehead (text)
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Wars I (text)
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 Wilfred Owen
The Last Laugh (text)
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Fragment: A Farewell (text)
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 W.H. Auden
Epitaph On A Tyrant (text)
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 Sherman Pearl
The Poem in Time of War (text)
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 Rachel Bentham
News from Iraq (text)
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War--the concise version (text)
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 Peter Levitt
Untitled (text)
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 Sampurna Chattarji
Easy (text)
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 Alexandra Indira Sanyal
Untitled (text)
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 David Connolly
Food for Thought, 3AM (text)
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Why I Can't (text)
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Wearing Faces (text)
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 Siegfried Sassoon
Does it Matter? (text)
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 Emily Dickinson
Poem #639 (text)
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 Alan Seeger
I Have a Rendezvous with Death (text)
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 Ali Habash
Rockets Destroying a Happy Family (text)
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 Hashim Shafiq
The Killer of Iraq (Saddam Hussein) (text)
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 Pamela Talene Hale
Poem for an Iraqi Child in a Forgotten News Clip (text)
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 Shoda Shinoe
Tanka (I) (text)
Tanka (II) (text)
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 Sam Hamill
Sheepherder Coffee (text)
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 Enheduanna, Sumerian Priestess
Lament to the Spirit of War (text)
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 Seamus Heaney
from "The Cure at Troy," based on Sophocles (text)
 
 Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Charge of the Light Brigade (text)
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 Homer
Opening Lines of The Iliad (text)
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 Antonieta Villamil
Letter to the brother that went to war (text)
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 Langston Hughes
Expendable (text)
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 Emily Warn
California Poppy (text)
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 Walt Whitman
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night (text)
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The Wound-Dresser (text)
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 Randall Jarrell
Losses (text)
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 Todd Swift
Promise (text)
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 Cameron Penny
If You Are Lucky in This Life (text)
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