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Tag: Military
New Poem by Nathan Didier: “Hearts and Minds”
New poem by Nathan Didier: “Hearts and Minds”
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New Poetry by Celeste Schueler: “In Oklahoma, Another Air Force Spouse Tells Me Starlings Are An Invasive Species” and “I First Compared You To A Blue Jay”
Three years before we met,
Friends tell me to stop reading
Virginia Woolf after my suicide
Attempt …
New Poetry by Benjamin Bellet: “What Was It Like?”; “Zero Five Thirty”; “West Point”
New poems by Benjamin Bellet
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New Poetry by Nathan Didier: “Hearts and Minds”
New Poem by Nathan Didier: “Hearts and Minds”
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New Fiction by Robert Miner: Shades of Purple
Danny Llewellyn hadn’t shit himself since he was a toddler, back when nobody minded. Since then, he’d joined the Army…
New Poetry by Joshua Folmar: “Sudoku”
New Poem by Joshua Folmar: Sudoku
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New Poetry by J.S. Alexander: “Sabat”
New Poem by J.S. Alexander: “Sabat (Loyalty)”
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New Review by Michael Gruber: “The Myth of the Clean Air War”
A review of Kimberly K. Dougherty’s Airpower in Literature: Interrogating the Clean War, 1915-2015 One of war’s most …
New Poetry by Jennifer Smith: “So This is My Career?”
New Poem by Jennifer Smith: “So This is My Career”
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New Fiction from Lucas Randolph: “Boys Play Dress Up”
When visiting a friend’s grandpa, the Boy learned that the grandpa liked watching football games on the weekend…
New Nonfiction from MaxieJane Frazier: “A Military Liberal Education”
The scored green vinyl seat inside an Air Force Bluebird bus at the base of the “Bring Me Men” ramp at the U.S. Air F…
New Fiction by Rachel Ramirez: “The Witness”
I am in the grand room of the High Commissioner’s Residence in Manila. A crystalchandelier hangs from the ceili…
New Nonfiction: Review of Christopher Lyke’s “The Chicago East India Company”
Gravitational lensing – as half-remembered from an article I read years ago, as confirmed courtesy of a recent …
New Poetry from Tanya Tuzeo: “My Brother, the Marine;” “My Brother’s Shoebox;” and “My Brother’s Grenade”
my brother, the Marine the recruiters come weeks earlier than agreed— arrive in alloy, aluminum with authority…
New Poetry from Amalie Flynn: “Celebrate”
1. Celebrate them. 2. Celebrate the soldier who went to war Just to kill. This soldier accused of shooting and Killin…
It Just Keeps Going
The first time I heard the phrase “Hate Train,” I was stationed in Japan with the Navy, attempting to enjoy a bowl of…
Wrongful Appropriation of the Soul
In regard to cruelties committed in the name of a free society, some are guilty, while all are responsible. Rabbi Abr…
New Nonfiction from Kiley Bense: Tell Me About My Boy
Here’s an empty grave, where a body that had been a boy became bones beneath a wooden cross. They buried him with one…
FOB by Daniel Ford
An excerpt of the debut novel Sid Sanford Lives! by Daniel Ford Sid stepped into the desert surrounding the cramped f…
New Fiction: “The List” by Andria Williams
Author’s note: I began this story in 2013, but eventually set it aside because I feared it would seem unrealistic, or…
New Poetry by Yael Hacohen
Fortitude Seven times I’ve been to the Wall to scribble my prayers and fold them into the seams in the yellow s…
New Fiction: “Old Wounds” by Therese Cox
The YouTube walkthroughs have names, like action movies or episodes of a serial TV show. Judgment Day. Suffer With Me…
New Poetry by Randy Brown
Toward an understanding of war and poetry, told (mostly) in aphorisms Poetry is the long war of narrative. Poetry, li…
Hierarchy and Americans, A Long Love Affair
We have leaders, in the USA, it's always been that way. I don’t believe in some magical, fairyland communal…
Wrath of UCMJ: Against Crushing Bowe Bergdahl
Americans have become jaded by injustice. Wealthy and elitist citizens like Robert Durst and John du Pont bully, rape…
The Racist Arguments For, Against Gun Control
Gun violence is deeply entrenched in America. Chances are, if you’ve spent any time outside the Upper East Side of Ma…
Suicide and the Military
There are two substantial issues facing the American military and veteran community today. The first, a logical and n…