New Poetry by D.R. James: “Stunned”
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Tag: War
New Poetry by Jason Green: “Winter Haiku,” “Spring Haiku”
New poems by Jason Green: Winter Haiku and Spring Haiku
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New Poetry by Wayne Karlin: “What Binds Us”
New poem by Wayne Karlin: “What Binds Us”
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New Poetry by Kyle Hanton: “Deployment, 2017”
New poem by Kyle Hanton
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New Poem by Nathan Didier: “Hearts and Minds”
New poem by Nathan Didier: “Hearts and Minds”
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New Poetry by Elisabeth Lewis Corley: “An Loc”
New Poem by Elisabeth Lewis Corley: An Loc
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New Poetry by Patricia Hastings: “Dad”
New Poem from Patricia Hastings: Dad
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New Poetry by Faye Susan: “I am the Daughter of a Storyteller”
New Poetry by Faye Susan: “I am the Daughter of a Storyteller”
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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 Loretta Tobin: “In the Dead Man’s Seabag” and “River City”
A blue ribbon marked
First Thessalonians,
where he had underlined—
Be joyful always;
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New Poem by John Thampi: “Ad Memoriam”
New poem by John Thampi: Ad Memoriam
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New Poetry by Layle Chambers: “Becoming a Lighthouse #1;” “You Find Wonders;” “Pilot Air”
cold laps the shore
no choice but to step in
stride out, stake my place
transmute into tower
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New Poetry by Kathleen Murdough: “He Signed Up”
“This is what he signed up for,”
my mother says when
my brother graduates from West Point.
New Poetry by Devin Mikles: “Telegram to Mrs. Sargent”
ONLY MUDDY BOOTS AND HELMETS CAKED RUSTING ROTTING IN STEAMING GREENHOUSES STICK UP FROM DECAYED REMAINS CAUSED BY DE…
New Poetry by Aramis Calderon: “Loyal”
New poem by Aramis Calderon: “Loyal”
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New Nonfiction by Fred Cheney: Tracers
I’ve changed all the names in this story except my own. They’re all dead, but … that afterlife thing just might be tr…
New Poetry by Nathan Didier: “Hearts and Minds”
New Poem by Nathan Didier: “Hearts and Minds”
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New Poetry by Rachel Rix: “Experimental Simulation of Joint Morphology During Desiccation,” “Second Deployment,” “CO’s Canon”
New Poetry by Rachel Rix: “Experimental Simulation of Joint Morphology During Desiccation,” “Second…
New Nonfiction by Adrian Bonenberger: “An Alternate View of Moral Injury”
An Alternate View of Moral Injury Introductory note: I originally composed this essay between 2022-23. I’ve gone back…
New Poetry by Douglas G. Campbell: “The President’s New Children’s Crusade”
New Poetry by Douglas Campbell: “The President’s New Children’s Crusade”
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New Poetry by Sylvia Baedorf Kassis: “Detritus”
New Poetry by Sylvia Baedorf Kassis: “Detritus”
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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 Richard Epstein: “The Dance”
New Poem by Richard Epstein: “The Dance”
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New Poetry by Peter Mladinic: “Fist”
In Okinawa I made a fist and my fingers stuck together that stop over night my one stop before Danang, between…
New Poetry by David Burr: “Harvest”
Hurl of metal – iron, steel – as shrapnel,
as bail hail, as HE detonation, all
forged and spi…
New Poetry by Jayant Kashyap: “The War”
New poetry by Jayant Kashyap: “The War”
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New Poetry by Phillip Sitter: “Krakivets, Odyn” and “Elemental”
New Poetry by Phillip Sitter: “Krakivets, Odyn” and “Elemental”
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New Poetry by Shawn McCann: “All I Can Do Is Watch” and “No Way To Fight Back”
New Poetry by Shawn McCann: “All I Can Do Is Watch” and “No Way To Fight Back”
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New Poetry by David Dixon: “Last Night, I Dreamed of the Korengal”; “Look at This Thing We’ve Made”; and “War Poetry”
New Poems by David Dixon: “Last Night, I Dreamed of the Korengal;” “Look at This Thing We’ve …
New Poetry by Cheney Crow: “The Grey Phone”
New poem by Cheney Crow: “The Grey Phone”
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New Poetry by Joshua Folmar: “Sudoku”
New Poem by Joshua Folmar: Sudoku
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New Poetry by Lawrence Bridges: “Time of War and Exile” and “Taking an Island”
New poems by Lawrence Bridge: “Time of War and Exile” and “Taking an Island”
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New Poetry by Matthew Hummer: “Amortization”
New poem by Matthew Hummer: “Amortization”
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New Poetry by Almyr Bump: “Plowing Water”
New poem by Almyr Bump: “Plowing Water”
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New Poetry by J.S. Alexander: “Sabat”
New Poem by J.S. Alexander: “Sabat (Loyalty)”
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New Fiction by Adrian Bonenberger: “King Tide”
We’d been expecting the fascists for a few days but they’d gotten hung up on Newark. Usually they moved fast. C…
New Poetry by Ben White: “Cleaning the M60 – 39 Years and January 26, 1984”
New Poetry by Ben White: “Cleaning the M60 – 39 Years and January 26, 1984”
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New Poetry by Kat Raido: “Blood Goggles”
New poem by Kat Raido: “Blood Goggles”
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New Poetry by Amalie Flynn: “Strip”
New Poem by Amalie Flynn: “Strip”
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New Poetry by Abena Ntoso: “Dear Melissa”
New poem by Abena Ntoso: “Dear Melissa”
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New Poetry by Sofiia Tiapkina: “To Forget or Not Maybe,” “Grasping the Sky,” and “Airless Embrace”
to forget or not maybe to forget or not maybe to fight for memory or not i’m here i’m she lying on my ba…
New Poetry by Luis Rosa Valentin: “Desperate Need of Help”
Desperate Need of Help
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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 Poetry by Todd Heldt: “This Is A Drill, This Is Only A Drill” and “Suffer The Children”
ACTION IS PRETTY / image by Amalie Flynn This is a drill. This is only a drill. They voted to abolish history.…
New Poetry by Justice Castañeda: “There Will Be No Irish Pennants”
There Will Be No Irish Pennants “Discipline organizes an analytical space.” [1] Field Day & Inspection. Wi…
New Poetry by Jehanne Dubrow: “Poem for the Reader Who Said My Poems Were Sentimental and Should Engage in a More Complex Moral Reckoning with U.S. Military Actions”; “Epic War Poem”; “Tyrian Purple,” and “Some Final Notes On Odysseus”
When the goddess cries out,
her voice is a mountain against
the fighting. But the old soldier
keeps…
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 Poetry from D.A. Gray: “Cactus Tuna”; “We Return from the Holy Land. God Stays”; and “Reverse Run”
New Poetry from DA Gray: “Cactus Tuna”; “We Return from the Holy Land. God Stays”; and “…
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…