UP Vet Writers & Artists

03/06/2016

This book, written by a Marine, should not go unread. Order it today.

Service: Poems (Walt McDonald First-Book Series)

01/17/2016

http://www.amazon.com/Dust-A-Memoir-Benjamin-Busch/dp/0062014854

Tim O’Brien meets Annie Dillard in this remarkable memoir by debut author Benjamin Busch. Much more than a war memoir, Dust to Dust brilliantly explores the passage through a lifetime—a moving meditation on life and death, the adventures of childhood and revelations of adulthood. Seem...

12/15/2015

As a teenager growing up in rural Kentucky, Jack Kassinger worked long hours as a field hand on a neighboring farm. After graduating from high school, he took a job at a Peabody Coal Company strip-mine in southern Illinois. He worked with Peabody until he received his draft notification in Decemb...

11/05/2015

Join us this Veterans Day! We graciously ask that you please "Like" and share this post. We want to have the honor of serving those who are serving or who have served our county. We Thank You!

11/11/2013

Good job guys!

Local military veterans, along with one son of a veteran, share stories and poems of life in the U.S. armed forces overseas, after the return home, and as

10/31/2013

http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/books/Afghan+memoir+wins+Weston+prize/9064133/story.html

Graeme Smith has won the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Non-Fiction.

10/14/2013

Go get em

Soldiers are racing to get tattoos before Army brass tighten rules that are now the least restrictive in the armed forces.

09/11/2013

by Neil Leinwohl We came aboard. One by one. Smelling of canvas and gun oil. Following the guidon. The numbered cloth we belonged too. Just like in the movies. This would be the newsreel insert. To...

09/05/2013

Image Poem Iraq is a book project conceived by Joel Preston Smith, a writer and photographer in Portland, Oregon, and Mary Bast, a poet in Gainesville, Florida.

09/04/2013

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08/31/2013

Vet Friendly Press

Press 53 is a publisher of quality poetry and short story collections, founded in October 2005 and located in Winston-Salem, NC.

08/22/2013

"My most important rule is one that sums up the 10. If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it." The legendary author passed away today at the age of 87. The following is from Leonard's ...