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- CASANA 3/21/2013
- CNN 9 /11/2011
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- Lit Chat 9/12/2013
- Our 9/11 Tribute 9/11/2011
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- The Art of Extraordinary Writing
- The New York Times Media Decoder 8/10/2012
- The Welcome Home Project
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- Weaponized Culture 5/3/2012
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Press for WIFE AND WAR: THE MEMOIR
- "She's Lucky" in Stars & Stripes 11/7/2013
- Barrington Author Shares Her Story Tonight 9/11/14
- Give the gift of military history
- How to Help War Vets Struggling with Emotional Numbing 2/17/2015
- Mention by Time Now Blog
- Peter Molin on Time Now 9/28/14
- The Barrington Patch 9/10/2013
- The Barrington Times 9/10/2013
- The Providence Journal 9/8/2013
- The Waiting: 'Stateside,' 'Wife and War," and the Hale Koa
- These Almost Widows-Amalie Flynn's Wife and War 10/2/14
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- America the Gun in Atticus Review 10 / 13 / 2014
- Excerpt in STARS & STRIPES 11/7/2013
- Excerpt on Blogs of War 10/16/2013
- Excerpt on Medium / Words After War
- Excerpt on Words After War 2/4/2014
- Integra Center 11/20/2013
- LINE on 3 Quarks Daily 3/29/2012
- NO on Speaking of Apraxia 2/3/2014
- The New York Times 8/19/2012
- The New York Times At War 11/15/2010
- The New York Times At War 11/23/2011
- The New York Times At War 3/1/2011
- TIME 9/28/2011
- Wife in The Literary Review 5 / 2014
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Tag Archives: blood
Eclipse
When I met you I was only Bones How I wore my bones on The outside like a Dress. And tonight there is a super moon, The blood moon, this lunar eclipse, And I go outside to stand in the … Continue reading
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Fill
I am standing in the kitchen When I hear him, My hands and arms, Wrist deep, In a sink full of water, And my son is crying, My son, Who is five years old Now, But cannot speak, Not more … Continue reading
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Grenade
We are awake Still and Sitting in the dark Of our living room, Talking about it Again, About getting out or staying in, In the military, How we are in the military And I want to get out. And we … Continue reading
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Distance
On my computer there are photographs Of a refugee camp in Kabul, A place where people go When they flee war And become internally displaced, And I am looking at them, The photographs, The people, the camps, huts made out … Continue reading
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Spin
When my son asks me what is a tsunami, I tell him it is a giant wave, Caused by a volcano or an earthquake, That can make the ocean floor shift and We look it up on the computer together, … Continue reading
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Ventricle
When a soldier deploys to war, He goes to a country with Bombs and bullets, and wears Kevlar body armor, with plates, A ballistic chest plate covering His heart, And when a soldier patrols a town, He carries his M4, … Continue reading
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Arming
It is night in America. And in this house, on a television, There are men, who talk about arms. About how we should arm them, Rebels from another country, so They can take over a bad regime. And I know … Continue reading
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