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December 2011 ::: Nollaig 2011 Artwork by Luana Stebulė Anthony Sullivan (Ireland) , L. Summerton Morgan (USA), Tomás Ó Cárthaigh (Ireland), Spiros Kitsinelis (Greece / France), Hal O Leary (USA), Matthew Walz (USA), Tatjana Debeljacki (Serbia), Lizzie Corsi (USA) Bernard Lorimer (Northern Ireland), Randall Aittaniemi (USA), Sabahudin Hadžialic (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Deepak Chaswal (India), Erica (USA). Kathy Coman (USA), Kim Wilson (USA), Gonzalo Salesky (Agentina), Rishan Singh (South Africa), Luiza Flynn-Goodlett (USA), Irena Jovanovic (Serbia),Dan Castle (USA), Greg Gunn (Canada), Lisa McCraw, (USA), Matthew Bell (Australia), Laura Cleary (Ireland), Niall O Conner (Ireland) Evin Okçuoglu (Turkey), Simon Rhee (USA), Elizabeth A. Fontaine (USA), Luana Stebule (Lithuania), Barbara Wühr (Germany / France), Frank C. Praeger (USA) Cartys Poetry Journal www.cartyspoetryjournal.com Activism and the Poet Foreword Activism is on the rise, look around, no As 2011 draws to a close, we have again mistake can be made about it. No more are another great year on which to look back, people standing on the sidelines, they are where we brought the best of poetry from getting out there to make their voices heard. Ireland and around the world to a readership What effect that they are having is totally in Ireland and around the world. another story, but they are getting out there anyway. We have seen and partaken in the 100,000 Poets for Change event, and look forward to From the Occupy! Movement – the Irish partaking in the 2012 event, we will be activism which is largely ignored here in the charting the participation in the 10 Years and local press – to the 100,000 Poets for Change Counting Project, we have seen the launch of event, started on Facebook by Michael the book locally by Ken Hume in Tullamore Rothenberg, to the 10 Years and Counting “Snowstorm of Doubt and Grace”, and event against the wars in the middle east and reported on the poetic events around Ireland.
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