Wednesday, August 25, 2010

War News Radio

Go visit this site and click on Jessie Arian reports to hear our interview!!!!

http://www.warnewsradio.org/2008/08/19/warrior-writers/

October Jamboree Workshop

Keep this in mind--no dates yet but they are soon to follow!!! This will be great and probably in Philly :D

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Morning Ramblings...work in progress

When did I lose the capacity to cry?
When did my tears dry up like wells in the desert heat,
Like sleeping volcanos afraid of the destruction they would spew forth on their countrymen should they choose to live,
Like the desert cough that comes from an angry night only wanting the rains to fall and make earth give fruit.
When did I lost the capacity to cry?
When did my strength become a wall over which you could only wave a flag to indicate your love,
Where a mother's hug is shielded in a layer of kevlar and grit
Where a brother's send-off is masked in a feast of gluttony and fear
When sleep is only a rock and a pill away
near the rusted metal and debris that serves as blankets for my shadow.
When did I lose the capacity to be?
Like a sculpture asked only to resemble
to endure,
to represent.
When did I lose?

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Something I just found in my notebook from a retreat

All mixed up,
nothing cohesive.

You are strong!

my life
unraveling.

Couldn't lose it-
their lives depended on me-only me
if they wanted to live.

Countless wounds...
some big, some fleshy, gaping holes--
some where they looked like we
were trying to kill

his soul...


Comments/suggestions always welcome!!

Monday, August 9, 2010

Publishing Opp

Don't forget the deadline for this is 15 August!!! Would be great to have some WW work included. Also, if you have a workshop--let us all know how it went. I know the Brooklyn workshop recently added a new member to our org!! That's great!