The Classical Roots of Contemporary War Literature: Been There, Done That,...
Beyond the walls of this Afghanistan FOB, a hilltop fortress reportedly built by Alexander the Great Many contemporary war authors, artists, and thinkers have turned to classical Greece for subjects,...
View ArticleHer Own Private Ithaca: Jehanne Dubrow’s Stateside
Jehanne Dubrow’s volume of poems Stateside portrays a stressful period in the marriage of the poems’ speaker before, during, and after the deployment of her husband, a Navy enlisted sailor or officer....
View ArticleDodge (War) Poetry Festival 2014
Elyse Fenton, Dodge Poetry Festival 2014. War subjects and themes were the focus of this year’s Dodge Poetry Festival, the nation’s largest celebration of poetry, held annually in Newark, New Jersey....
View Article22 American Iraq and Afghanistan War Poets
Soldiers Patrolling Wheatfield, Khost Province, Afghanistan (USAF-ISAF photo) To honor National Poetry Month, below are poems by twenty-two American writers whose poems reflect and engage America’s...
View ArticleWar Poetry: Jehanne Dubrow’s Dots & Dashes
Jehanne Dubrow’s poems are always wonderfully realized, rich and complete in sense and spirit, each word and image precisely fitted and instantly accessible while also evoking subtler or higher orders...
View ArticleOn to Tampa! AWP18
Now I got a reason, now I got a reason, now I got a reason, now I got a reason…. –“Holidays in the Sun,” the Sex Pistols Thursday through Saturday this week in Tampa, Florida, is the Association of...
View ArticleAWP18-Tampa, FL
The annual AWP writers’ conference is a feel-good affair more suited for socializing and networking than serious literary pondering. So it was this year, too, in Tampa in March, even as the writing,...
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