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A Rare Poet Recalls His Youth and The Pacific War
Paul Elisha is a Northeast Public Radio commentator, composer and poet. His excellent book, 'Swash,' recalls his youth and how the Pacific War engulfed and forever changed his life. The poems are restrained and deeply moving.
Algerian Sketches Savage Beauty of Tribal Dancer Inspires a Poem
The savage beauty of an Algerian tribal dancer from his father's tribe inspired a poem by Djelloul Marbrook just published by CELAAN, the Skidmore College Review of its Center for the Studies of the Literatures and Arts of North Africa.
‘Too Busy’ As An Instrument of Incivility and Exhibitionism
People who give you short shrift because they're so busy and so important are employing an avoidance shtick. They think acting that important makes them that important, perception being everything.
How We are Perceived By Our Names
My name, Djelloul, has brought me into confrontation all my life with what it is to be an American. In boarding school it was questioned and I was made to feel 'foreign,' but in the Navy it was accepted because I was a brother in arms.
Brian Turner, Soldier-Poet, Tells us What The Iraq War is Really Like
We should imbed in combat units not journalists, but poets, artists, musicians-all better equipped to elevate human consciousness. This book about the Iraq war proves it.
