Poets for Peace
Saturday February 22, 2003
Vancouver Public Libary
Poets for Peace was a reading by Vancouver poets held at the
Vancouver Public Library on February 22, 2003. The reading was organized by
Luanne
Armstrong and Jamie Reid, and sponsored by Writers Against War and the
Vancouver Public Library. The poetry reading was held in solidarity with
poets in the United States after a literary seminar at the White House,
sponsored by Laura Bush, was cancelled.
Approximately 120 people attended the reading.
The order in which the poets
read is as follows:
Fred Cogswell
Fiona Lam
Sharon Thesen
Tim Lander
Ellen McGinn
Jamie Reid
Kuldip Gill
Tammy Armstrong
Gary Gottfriedson
Maxine Gadd
Heidi Greco
Leona Gom
David Morgan
Madeline Sonik
Marie Annharte Baker
Peter Trower
Luanne Armstrong
George Stanley
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