KyiMayKaung

Burma, America, The World, Art, Literature, Political Economy through the eyes of a Permanent Exile. "We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the oppressed. Sometimes we must interfere. . . There is so much injustice and suffering crying out for our attention . . . writers and poets, prisoners in so many lands governed by the left and by the right." Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Speech, 1986, Oslo. This entire site copyright Kyi May Kaung unless indicated otherwise.

Monday, March 17, 2008

This week beginning Thursday -- Split This Rock Poetry Festival in DC

will be smashing.

Nita of FBB says this is a neat pun. I think it may be part of a neat metaphor -- anyway --

http://www.splitthisrock.org/

March 20-23, 2008.

Sponsored by DC Poets Against War, Busboys and Poets, Institute of Policy Studies.

A must for people who think politics and words matter.