Activists, bloggers, poets, musicians and concerned citizens gathered in Basil 135 on Feb. 12 for the eighth annual Poets Against the War readings. Frank Judge, president of Rochester Poets and a St. John Fisher alum, organized the event. The P.A.W. movement started in 2003 as a response to former President George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq. People channeled their outrage with the government into writing and created what is now the largest poetry anthology ever published. Rochester is one of the few cities in the country with an unbroken record of holding P.A.W readings. “I’m disappointed by the small turn-out,” said filmmaker and first-time performer Mara Ahmed. “It seems like there’s hardly any acknowledgement that our country’s at war.” Full article.