Voices From Burma: Poets of No Name

From New York the Asia Society, in association with the Iowa International Writing Program, hosted an evening on June 14th of invited readings in support of the Burmese writers killed or arrested following the military coup earlier this year.

David Howard read alongside US Poet Laureates Joy Harjo and Robert Hass, Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek, Mayyu Ali, Esther Dischereit, Rafael Jesús González, Brenda Hillman, Khet Mar, Christopher Merrill, Meridel Rubenstein, David St. John, Preti Taneja, Chaw Ei Thein, Ko Ko Thett, and Kinga Tóth.

Moderated by Kenneth Wong, the participants were asked 'to say a few words about the plight of the poets in this conflict and the power of poetry, and then to read a poem or two by these Poets of No Name — a moniker chosen to safeguard their identity.' David's reading is introduced at 1:28:40.

Voices From Burma: Poets of No Name