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Article: ZEN POET'S VOICE OF DISSENT HEARD BY ANTI-WAR LITERATI.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- February 18, 2003
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Byline: CHRIS McGANN P-I reporter
PORT TOWNSEND -- Sam Hamill, a reclusive former Marine turned Zen Buddhist poet, is an unlikely spokesman for the anti-war poetry movement he started almost by accident.
Hamill triggered a nationwide artistic uprising when he declined a White House invitation to a literary symposium Feb. 12, instead asking fellow poets to write protest poems.
That act of dissent continues to gain momentum, and yesterday Hamill braved a blizzard to join other poets in the limelight of New York City's Lincoln Center for public readings to raise money for anti-war efforts.
Scheduled to share the stage before a packed ...