by Judith McNeely Ryan Koch is one of the promising new poets whose work will soon be featured in Blue Streak: A Journal of Military Poetry. Ryan describes his poem “Showtime” as one that compares his arrival in Afghanistan to the sensations experienced by an actor taking first steps onto the stage on opening night….
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Spotlight: Art Schade’s “Not Alone”
An excerpt from Art Schade’s “Not Alone,” a non-fiction piece featured in the forthcoming volume of The Journal of Military Experience: The group leader asked me to talk about my post-war years, an area where he knew I had some success. I told them that when I left the Marines after four years, I was youthful…
Spotlight: Virgil Huston’s “Valhalla” by Kathryn Broyles
Virgil Huston’s poem “Valhalla” which will be featured in Blue Streak this November. * * * Valhalla —Virgil Huston In modern times why do warriors fight pointless and counterproductive wars? Do they really believe that Afghanistan is a noble cause? Iraq? That make us hated more by those we try to rule. Is it just…
Spotlight: Artist Giuseppe Pellicano
Dr. Tara Leigh Tappert, the art editor for The Journal of Military Experience’s third volume, and a person as ingratiated with the veteran art community as one can get through her various roles as editor, curator, college instructor, and non-profit leader, recently said that Giuseppe Pellicano was “the real deal” when asked which artists we…