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Hear This Hammer Ring

Don't you hear this hammer ring?

I'm gonna split this rock

And split it wide!

When I split this rock,

Stand by my side.

- Langston Hughes

When we first began organizing the Split This Rock Poetry Festival about a year and a half ago, I told people that we'd chosen the date to coincide with the fifth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. I can't tell you how many asked us, "Oh, do you think the war will still be going on then?"

My first reaction was, "What are you smoking?"