Poetry
Yusef Komunyakaa Event, Jan. 11, at Drew University in New Jersey.
January 7, 2013
Drew University in Madison, New Jersey, will host an all-day program on Friday, January 11, featuring Yusef Komunyakaa , the Pulitzer-Prize-winning poet whose work has been strongly influenced by his service in the Vietnam War.…
The History of Bearing Children by Jacqueline Murray Loring
October 18, 2012
Jacqueline Murray Loring (above ) is the editor of two important anthologies, Summer Home Review: A Community of Words: A Circle of Poets, An Anthology of Selected Poems and Stories (2002), and Summer Home Review,…
Memorial Day Writers' Project on the Mall, 2012
May 23, 2012
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Lewe Barnett, 2006"] [/caption] On Monday, May 28, Memorial Day 2012, the Memorial Day Writer's Project one again is hosting a group of veteran writers, poets, songwriters, and singers--many of them…
Sam in ‘Nam by Sam Modica
December 13, 2011
Sam Modica served in Vietnam with the 1st Marine Division, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, H Company as a radio man. Sam in 'Nam: True Stories, Peoms from the War in Vietnam, 1968-1969 (Friesen Press, 96…
Fighting PTSD One Poem at a Time by James H. Rose
November 21, 2011
VVA member Jim Rose's Fighting PTSD One Poem at a Time (Xlibris, 152 pp., $29.99, hardcover; $10.66 , paper), is a heartfelt collection of short poems, many of which address matters close to the hearts of…
Komunyakaa – National Book Award Finalist
October 22, 2011
Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa, who served in the U.S. Army in the Vietnam War, was named one of five finalists for the 2011 National Book Award in Poetry for his latest collection, The Chameleon…
Life Through Poetry by William T. Matthews, Jr.
July 26, 2011
William T. Matthews, Jr. enlisted in the Army after high school and served in Vietnam from 1968-69 in the 19th Combat Engineer Battalion. I spotted one Vietnam War-related poem in Life Through Poetry (PublishAmerica, 78…
Closing the Hotel Kitchen by Robert Bohm
July 26, 2011
Robert Bohm was drafted into the Army in 1967, and served in Germany with the 225th Station Hospital as a clerk where he “heard horror stories from wounded grunts and others who suffered combat related…
Dead or Alive: Agent Orange by Mary Rincon
June 25, 2011
Any book with the words “Agent Orange” in the title gets my attention. Mary Rincon's Dead or Alive Agent Orange (PublishAmerica, 25 pp., $16.95, paper) grabbed me with the bright orange on the cover. Once that…
The Crooked Truth: Selected Poems by Dan Guenther
June 25, 2011
Dan Guenther was a Captain in the Marine Corps from 1968-1970, and has written a trilogy that draws from his Vietnam War tour. Several of the poems in The Crooked Truth: Selected Poems (Redburn Press,…