American Writers Against the Vietnam War
- American Writers Against the Vietnam War
American Writers Against the Vietnam War was an umbrella organization created in 1965 by American poets Robert Bly and David Ray. The group organized readings and meetings and joined in rallies, teach-ins, and demonstrations against the Vietnam War, allowing writers to protest under a collective identity of their own. Well known American writers who participated in AWAVW functions included Galway Kinnell, W.S. Merwin, Allen Ginsberg, Adrienne Rich, Grace Paley and Robert Lowell.
Bly, a charismatic performer, was a frequently seen figure on American college campuses throughout the late 1960s and the 1970s; his readings often became de facto anti-war rallies. In 1967, Bly won the National Book Award for his book of poems "The Light Around the Body"; he used the prize money and proceeds from the book to fund the War Resistance efforts.
More recently, writer protest against the American government's incursions into other countries has been assumed by such groups as Poets for Peace, [http://groups.google.com/group/Poets-for-Human-Rights Poets for Human Rights] , and [http://poetsagainstthewar.org Poets Against the War] , the latter formed in February, 2003 by poet, editor and translator Sam Hamill (a veteran of the 60s protests) when First Lady Laura Bush cancelled a White House symposium on poetry focusing on Dickinson, Whitman and Hughes when it became known that Hamill and others planned to use the occasion to protest the imminent invasion of Iraq by President Bush.
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