Welcome to the Poetry X Hunger Library where you'll find definitions and general information on the causes of hunger (see the Extent of Hunger section) as well as a listing of books and articles that discuss hunger over the years (see the Historic Accounts section).  The Resources section lists links to key poetry and hunger organizations and individuals in Maryland, the U.S. and globally.
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Extent of Hunger

Historic Accounts of Hunger

Resources

~ From a poem about The Irish Potato Famine ~

 
There is woe, there is clamour, in our desolated land,
And wailing lamentation from a famine stricken band…
                                     
Not a bird its music trilling through the leaves of the wood,
Nought but weeping and hands wringing in despair for our food.

Excerpted from A Lament for the Potato by Lady Jane Wilde               
First published in 1847 in The Nation