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- CASANA 3/21/2013
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- I'd Rather Be Making Art 9/11/2011
- La guerra della moglie di un militare
- Lit Chat 9/12/2013
- Our 9/11 Tribute 9/11/2011
- Report From Newport (p.7)
- September 11th: art, artifacts and remembrance 9 / 11 / 2011
- The Art of Extraordinary Writing
- The New York Times Media Decoder 8/10/2012
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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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Remains
My son wakes up And calls out to me. His voice is a wave that Passes through the wall That separates us. A hollow cavity. And I say coming. Touch my husband. His Shoulder. Say going. And He is rolling over. … 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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Matter
My older son is looking For the quotient, Because he is doing math And it is a problem Of division, And I tell him how the total Number can be divided into Parts And how, sometimes, sometimes There is a … Continue reading
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Structure
My son is sitting At the kitchen table Talking about the textual structures He learned about in school, or how There is description and sequencing Or cause and effect and Problem and solution, And how sometimes they overlap, Overlap on … 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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Explode
My ten year old son Is sitting at the kitchen table, Reading about ISIS. For homework, he says, And I am reading over, Over his shoulder, how The terrorists are Taking over, Taking over, Land, regions, people, How they are … Continue reading
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Fall
Iraq, I tell my husband, As we stand in our kitchen, Where he is holding a knife In his hand and strawberries In his other hand, That he grew in the garden He planted when He came home from war, … Continue reading
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Circuit
The power goes off again In this condo I am living in Since my husband left, Left for war. And my neighbor comes over, With a flashlight in his hand, Saying something about how A line went down and Just … Continue reading
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Half
The museum has a photograph Of a pair of shoes from 9/11, A pair of black high heel shoes That are scuffed on the sides. And seeing them Brings me back To that day, Planes hitting, Bodies falling, Or how … Continue reading
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Wife and War 