On March 5, Poets Against The War presented Congress with 13,000 poems protesting the drive to war on Iraq. “To say that this was an unprecedented publishing event is putting it mildly. It may have been the beginning of a sea change—not only in the way that poems are published and circulated, but in the way that they are thought of in terms of their cultural role. The presentation capped off the most visible organized poetic protest against war with Iraq.”