Town of Litchfield Connecticut issued the following announcement on March 17.
Happy Saint Patrick's Day!!
Below please find a video of Litchfield’s Poet Laureate, Robert Piazza, reading "An Irish Airman Foresees his Death" by Irish poet William Butler Yeats. (You may need to increase the volume to properly hear it.) This poem was written one hundred years ago, in reference to World War 1. Yeats' close associate Lady Gregory lost her son in the war. He was a pilot in the RAF. Now, the poem has resonance with the war in Ukraine, especially concerning the need for fighter jets. May there be peace in Ukraine & in the world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHzHkX6n7Gw
Rob P.
Poet Laureate of Litchfield
https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/robert_piazza
Original source can be found here.
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