Against the War
The September 1972 issue of the magazine Poetry was titled ‘Against the War’ – a digitized version is now available on the Poetry Foundation website.
30 April 2015
30 April 2015 marked the 40th anniversary of the fall of Saigon which marked the end of the war in Vietnam. Here are links to some poems inspired by this event.
‘After the Fall of Saigon’, by Walter McDonald on the LA Times website (apologies, this site has advertisements)
‘”It’s Only Rock’n’Roll, but I Like It”: The Fall of Saigon’, by David Wojahn on The Past is Still Recorded Online
‘The Fall of Saigon’, by Peter W. Owens http://fallofsaigon.org/orig/art.htm
‘Aubade with Burning City’, by Ocean Vuong Poetry Foundation website
We have added this new site to our original Discover War Poets website launched in 2014 to commemorate the outbreak of the First World War.
Please bear with us as we add more material to the site – and please do upload any of your own contributions via the Contact form.