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the May/June 2003 issue of The Horn Book Magazine Letters to the Editor I have subscribed to The Horn Book Magazine for the entire extent of my library career, almost twenty years. I will not be renewing the subscription for my school library due to my displeasure with your politicized editorials (“The Truth’s Superb Surprise” March/April 2003). I have no interest in the political views of your editor. It is obvious that he has no respect for those of his readers. It is a shame that a journal dedicated to children’s literature should be used to promote a political point of view. From now on I will rely on the web for reviews. Sandra Kernaghan
“War is when we kill the children,” the King of Jordan told architect William McDonough. I honor every person who resists war — Galway Kinnell, who planned to go to the White House and read Whitman, and Sam Hamill, who refused and made this great big noisy fuss. A subtle, “slant” telling of all the truth may please our poetic souls, but it isn’t likely to make much impact. Public outrage and derision are the only tools I have to try to stop this war and I must use them, whether Laura Bush includes me in or includes me out. The courtiers and the nobles will not say it. It’s up to the children, the fools, and the poets to point and shout, “But he has nothing on!” Jessie Haas
In response to your editorial regarding the cancellation of the White House poetry symposium — do you really think that Laura Bush made that decision? As a retired school librarian I am sad to see that a librarian would cancel a meeting because someone might express an opinion, but that is what is happening throughout the administration now. How depressing that we are fighting to allow those halfway across the world to be able to express themselves freely when the leader of our own country seems to believe that we Americans should all fall in line with his opinion. I hope Mrs. Bush sees a copy of your article. Beverly W. Talladay |
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