Tuesday, November 11, 2008

News at Eleven: No through-line. No story arc.

Just months of boredom punctuated by fantastic and horrible moments that didn't seem to connect to one another.

Poetry offered a nearly perfect vehicle to explore those moments. Two months after [Brian] Turner returned home, he finished the award-winning "Here, Bullet." A second volume will be published this spring, and he is working on a third. (Watch Turner recite "Here, Bullet" below)

Poetry has long been the soldier's art, and on Veterans Day, it is worth remembering that leaders, and all of us, have a responsibility to listen.

from The Oregonian: Why poetry is the soldier's art

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