"Racism, Bigotry and Greed as causes of intolerance, hate, escalating violence, mass murders and ethnic cleansing"
"Mala tempora currunt": after decades of hope that followed the major conflicts of the XX century, it seems that violence is spreading out again, in our frail "modern" world. Social, political and economic uncertainties grow, and they fuel the worst part of our being. Racism, Bigotry and Greed represent the major source of the river of hate that flows through the human society and sweeps our most important 'values' away... We, as Poets, cannot remain silent...
Poems no longer than 30 lines, with no more than 70 characters per line
Only UNPUBLISHED poems will be accepted.
Do not submit poems already posted at PoemHunter, Facebook, and/or other web-sites/social. You need to state that the poem is unpublished when you submit it.
How this project was born:
On Sept. 18, I was asked by the poet friend Sayeed Abubakar if we could do something, as a group of poets, for the Rohingya
people. I brought such request to the attention of our Group [about
the so called "Rohingya crisis", you can read also this analysis from
the WP: The ‘ethnic cleansing’ of the Rohingya], specifying that we
can't publish a book exclusively focused on the Rohingyas (if we did, we
should accept any request to consider single situations.. and we simply
can't afford this -- indeed, following such
"policy/guideline", we could not accept to single out the ISIS issue a
few months ago, and opted for a more general theme [see the "Terror .2" book: 'United We Stand – Poets Against Terror']). This is the reason why I opted for the broader theme under the title "HOMO HOMINI LUPUS".
Then, I decided to add "Why To Kill a Mockingbird" as a sub-title, after I read in The Guardian that "To
Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee’s classic novel about racism and the
American south, has been removed from a junior-high reading list in a
Mississippi school district because the language in the book “makes
people uncomfortable”." (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/oct/14/to-kill-a-mockingbird-harper-lee-mississippi-school-reading-list) This is a clear sign of the time we live in!
P.S.: I'm going to start
a new editorial project in November, with a free theme.
It'll be our 2nd Autumn project. Stay tuned!
Latest ebooks published:
– 'From an Old Path – Contemporary European Poetry' – English Ed.