The words of the poets used to distill the emotional essence of war. A viscera l film experience: eloquent poetry, a cascade of images, painful and moving sto ries, an extraordinary soundtrack. An exploration of the perverse attraction an d terrible reality of war, the lasting personal and collective damage done by w ar, and how we might imagine and create a world less prone to war.

Poetry in Wartime is a documentary film that “looks a t war through images and the words of poets.” It also happens to be produced b y two friends of mine, Andrew Himes and Jonathan King.

The film will be released in late September, and previewed in libraries across the nation on September 11. They could use your help to get in into as many libraries as possible.

The film team is working in partnership with Voices in Wartime, an online commu nity where you can publish your own writing and images about war and peace.