HA&L magazine issue eleven.1

Poetry and Peace • by Gary Geddes 1

 

Hamilton Arts & Letters




Poetry and Peace • by Gary Geddes


During a recent trip to Colombia I was asked to participate in the Medellin International Poetry Festival, whose theme was Poetry and Peace. The FARC guerrillas, after fifty tumultuous years in the bush, had months earlier signed a peace agreement with the government and had surrendered their arms, with the exception of a few guns to defend their twenty-three ‘normalization’ zones against attacks by right-wing militias and the drug cartels. I was also asked to provide some thoughts on the possible relation between poetry and peace. What follows is a somewhat revised version of those thoughts.


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