For National Poetry Month 2020, a compilation of all Time Now posts featuring poetry and poets. The first link is to the most popular Time Now post ever–it contains links to 35 poems about contemporary war in Iraq and Afghanistan that are available online. The second link takes you to all Time Now posts tagged “War poetry.” There you can browse and read all, or almost all, of the posts listed below in one long scrolling screen. Below the first two links are individual links to Time Now poetry posts, beginning with Elyse Fenton in December 2012 and culminating with Drew Pham in December 2019.
35 American Iraq and Afghanistan War Poets
Time Now Posts Tagged “War Poetry”
Where Did All the War Poets Go?
Brian Turner, Benjamin Busch, Siobhan Fallon, and Exit12 at West Point
War Poetry: W.H. Auden on the FOB
Veterans Writing (Brian Turner’s “Night in Blue”)
Veterans Day Poem: Brian Turner’s “Wading Out”
Her Own Private Ithaca: Jehanne Dubrow’s Stateside
Little Magazines 3: Prairie Schooner and Michigan Quarterly Review (Benjamin Busch’s “Subtext”)
A Marine’s Poetry: Johnson Wiley
War Poetry: Brian Turner’s “A Soldier’s Arabic”
Unhappy Memorial Day: Kevin Powers’ Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting
War Poetry: Colin D. Halloran’s Shortly Thereafter
War Memoir/Poetry: Amalie Flynn’s Wife and War
October in the Railroad War Lit Earth (Maurice Decaul’s “Shush”)
Dodge (War) Poetry Festival 2014
The Afghan Women’s Writing Project
War Poetry: Philip Metres’ Sand Opera
Randy Brown’s Welcome to FOB Haiku
Colin D. Halloran’s Icarian Flux
War Poetry: Hugh Martin’s The Stick Soldiers
Life During Forever Wartime: Siobhan Fallon, Elliot Ackerman, and Elyse Fenton
Making the SEAL Team SEAL-Y: Literary Theory and Recent War Writing (Eric Chandler and Lisa Stice)
War Poetry: Jehanne Dubrow’s Dots & Dashes
Habibi: Dünya Mikhail’s The Iraqi Nights
War, Poetry, Experience: Hugh Martin, Abby E. Murray, Nomi Stone
War, Wives, Mothers: Poetry by Shara Lessley and Pamela Hart
War Poetry: Brock Jones’ Cenotaph
Firstest With the Mostest: Turner, Bigelow, Fallon
2020 Vision: Old Wars, New Directions (Drew Pham’s “How to Remember Your Ancestors”)
Photograph by Andria Williams.
Time Now: The Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in Art, Film, and Literature 