Ticket sales have begun for “War of Words,” based on a script I wrote/assembled by four Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities actors, under the guiding hand of director Lynne Collins. The preceding slash mark means that much of the script consists of poems by North Americans, written in response to WWI, with an original narration linking and, I hope, illuminating the work of these poets. I started researching poetry of the period over a year ago, with the aim of presenting poetic reactions to the U.S. entry into that war from this side of the Atlantic.Read More