War, Literature & the Arts
EDITOR'S NOTE
Thomas McGuire / Farewells, Hails and A Brief Tribute
EDITOR'S CHOICE
John Balaban / Passing Through A Gate & Escort (poems)
AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT
Bruce Weigl / Patrick Hicks Interviews Bruce Weigl & Five Poems
2022 JANNETTA LECTURE / Singing into the Wound: An Evening of War Poetry and Music
Dunya Mikhail, Brian Turner & The MacLaren String Quartet
ARTWORK
Terry Graff / Revenge of the Warbirds: The Impact of Armed Conflict on Nature
PERSONAL ESSAY
Maiwand Banayee / Toy Bombs
Susan Howard / My Son’s War
Will McGee / What It is Like to Never Go to War
POETRY
Michael Casey / Scars, Comma, High School Fights
Brendan Corcoran / Three Poems
Robert Hedin / Two Poems
Maureen Hurley / War’s End (3 Days After Hiroshima)
Phillip Parotti / Three Poems
Shannon Huffman Polson / Hovering
David Poynor / After Milton
Rachel Rix / Two Poems
Larry D. Thomas / Winter Trees
Seth Brady Tucker / Dipshit Nation
MEMOIR
Francis Doherty / Dear John
Renata Golden / Groundhog Days
CREATIVE NONFICTION
L. Rubin / On Pandemics (and other expected disasters)
FICTION
Sylvia Bowersox / The Baghdad Morgue
R. D. Edwards / Time Fuzed
CRITICAL ESSAYS
Lawrence Abbott / A Little War Music: The Songs of Vince Gabriel, Jason Moon, and Emily Yates
Scott Emmert / Ring Lardner’s Comic War
Jeff Loeb / The Dead: Loss of Self in the Literature of the Vietnam War
Joshua Roling / Sites of Language, Sites of Pain: Sula in Modern Memory
BOOK REVIEWS
Ross Gresham, Caroline Hampshire & Todd Chapman
Cartography: Navigating a Year in Iraq by Katherine Schifani
Forces: Poems by Lisa Stice
Among Elms, in Ambush by Bruce Weigl
FILM COMMENTARY
Jonathan Lighter / Women in the WWII War Zone & Four U.S. Cavalry Movies