Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

Great crowd of concerned citizens at this morning's No Kings Day Rally at the Grenada Bridge in Ormond Beach, Florida. Many, like me, ve...

This poem grabbed my attention because it captures the moment, as good poetry does. It was posted on Facebook by friend and one-time writing...

Some negative reviews have come in for Netflix's remake of  "All Quiet on the Western Front." They all say the same thing, tha...

Odd in 2022 to be rooting for an underdog European country against a maniacal dictator bent on war. Seems like 1939. Not that I experience...

All this book-banning makes me think of all of those books I read that might meet disapproval now from the GOP Know Nothings.  When I was in...

This is one of those wet years that our great-grandfathers told us about. You know, "rain follows the plow" so why not plow up 320...

On Thursday evening, CNN's "The Sixties" aired its segment on the Vietnam War. In real time in Washington, D.C., Vietnam War ...

As a Wyomingite, I can't really complain about another state's legislature's interference in the affairs of higher learning with...

Soldiers wave to the last U.S. military convoy to leave Iraq as it crosses the Kuwaiti border. Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images One of the...

Nancy Sindelar, Veterans for Peace, Laramie It may be a slight exaggeration to say that there would be no peace movement in Laramie witho...

Almost a century after it started, World War I continues to fascinate. I read the favorable   New York Times   review by Christopher Hitche...

Nancy Sindelar of Laramie's Veterans for Peace was at the action in D.C. and Quantico this weekend and asked me to post some of her phot...

Cheyenne's Joanne Kennedy Smyth writes about mirror neurons, empathy and writers. Maureen Dowd: Dick Cheney as Snidely Whiplash (via Dai...

The Voices in Wartime Education Project seeks submissions for an on-line booklet, "Waging Peace," to celebrate the International D...

In the early part of 2003, I was mightily pissed that we were set to invade Iraq. So, angry, in fact, that I wrote a poem and sent it into P...

Members of Code Pink bicycled through downtown and stopped at 17th and Broadway to set up and antiwar demonstration. This Code Pink activist...

Rage Against the Machine at a concert in The Netherlands earlier this year According to The Denver Post : Rage Against the Machine has agre...

As a writer, screenwriter ( Apollo 13 ) and editor for almost 40 years, William Broyles, Jr., knows a good metaphor when he sees one. During...

Here’s yet another summer writing workshop, this one with an antiwar slant. This invitation comes from Kevin Bowen, director of the William ...

iCasualties.org, or the Iraq Coalition Casualty Count site , is beginning to look like its former self. Michael White's site has been an...