"War" by Witter Bynner

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend Support Poem-a-Day October 19, 2019   War   Witter Bynner

Fools, fools, fools, Your blood is hot to-day.          It cools When you are clay. It joins the very clod Wherein you look at God, Wherein at last you see          The living God          The loving God, Which was your enemy.            This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on October 19, 2019, by the Academy of American Poets. About this Poem   "War" was published in 1914 in The Nation.   Witter Bynner was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1881. He is the author of New Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, 1960), Take Away the Darkness (Alfred A. Knopf, 1947) and Tiger (M. Kennerley, 1913). He died on June 1, 1968. Poetry by Bynner   Tiger (Palala Press, 2015) from "1915: The Trenches" by Conrad Aiken "Answers" by t'ai freedom ford "The Poem as Epiphyte" by Fady Joudah October Guest Editor: Oliver de la Paz   Thanks to Oliver de la Paz, author of five collections of poetry, including The Boy in the Labyrinth (University of Akron Press, 2019), who curated Poem-a-Day for this month's weekdays. Read a Q&A with Paz about his curatorial approach this month and find out more about our guest editors for the year. Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit poets.org   This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on October 6, 2019, by the Academy of American Poets.here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038

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