Remembering the recent comments on Billy Collins, I offer the list this link to an Associated Press article called "US Poet LaureateOpposes War with Iraq." In England, meanwhile, poet laureate Andrew Motion has written an anti-war poem that cites "elections, money, empire, oil" as the motivation for war. http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0206-07.htm I found this article linked at http://www.poetsagainstthewar.org/default.htm Wayne Pounds Tokyo