Military Veteran Works Through Trauma of War With Poetry

I kept going and, after several months, worked up the courage to share one of my war poems. My voice quavered as I read my work, the page ...

Veterans Turn War Experiences Into Poetry - VFW

Life in a war zone has a long history of producing great authors and great works of literature. Four current veterans — one of the Vietnam ...

Poetry pacifies post traumatic stress | Article | The United States Army

FORT SILL, Okla.-- A veteran opens up a book and in front of family, friends and fellow Soldiers, he spills out his experience of the Iraq ...

Veterans Day Reflections on Casualties of War with Veterans' Poetry ...

Internationally acclaimed documentary photographer Nina Berman discusses her exhibit Evidence and Fantasy: Militarism in American Life, and poet David ...

Veterans Speak: War, Trauma, and the Humanities - YouTube

Five student veterans, along with Professors Rosemary Johnsen and Andrae Marak, lead a discussion on how engaging war-related humanities ...

PTSD in War Poetry - Appalachia Bare

It is no surprise, then, that war poetry has a theme of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD. In order to better grasp this theme, one must ...

Prose, Poetry and PTSD: Magazine Offers Veterans Solace Through ...

Beginning with veterans of the First World War, the magazine has ... trauma that can come with military service. Watch. Share. Discuss ...

An Analysis of Poems About PTSD - Journal of Veterans Studies

It reflects the feelings of being haunted by memories of the past, and how it can be difficult to move on from the trauma of war. This poem speaks to the inner ...

Silence Was My Father's Fortress. I Shared It for a Time Until Poetry ...

Army paratrooper Bill Glose, young, grim-faced and holding an AK-47 in Iraq -- the photo that would grace the cover of ...

For these veterans, poetry and prose help treat the moral injury of war

For her new album, Nashville singer-songwriter Mary Gauthier collaborated with veterans to write songs about war, service, and life after the…

Using Poetry to Make Sense of War Trauma | HuffPost Culture

U.S. infantrymen have been given the idea that poetry isn't for tough guys. It's also our loss as soldiers because it has robbed many of us ...

Stephan Wolfert | National Endowment for the Arts

Jo Reed: You just heard an excerpt from the one-man show, Cry Havoc, performed and written by actor and US Army veteran Stephan Wolfert—with an ...

Veterans Unlock the Healing Power of Writing: How Poetry and ...

Creating a story, a poem, or a song are powerful ways for veterans to transform their feelings into something they can share.

UW military rhetoric instructor explores trauma through poetry, writing

When she's not teaching participants in the U.S. Army War College fellowship program at the University of Washington, Abby E. Murray can ...

'Guilt was the biggest injury': how veterans are using poetry to heal

The 40-minute film does not just show how art can heal, but also gives ample space for the veterans to speak about their trauma. “Guilt was the ...

How The First World War Shaped The Poetry Of Siegfried Sassoon

After the war, Sassoon found further success through his autobiographical writings. These helped shape the popular British view, still prevalent today, that the ...

Authors and poets on writing and mental health - Mountain Xpress

Heaney, the author of the 2016 prize-winning book, The Honor Was Mine: A Look Inside the Struggles of Military Veterans, has worked with the ...

Heard on Campus: Brian Turner discusses PTSD at Penn State ...

U.S. Army war veteran, poet and memoirist Brian Turner reads a ... U.S. Army war veteran, poet and memoirist Brian Turner reads a selection of his ...

Veterans' self-expression in poetry

The poem becomes an alternative space to his body, a space in which he can work with his experiences. Treating Veterans' poetry as art can help ...

THE AFTERMATH: Vietnam Veteran Poets Confront The Peace

It also brings home the oft-denied truth that some Vietnam veterans were comfortable returning from their war to college and antiwar demonstrations. I did it ...