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Fallujah the opera
Retired Marine sergeant Christian Ellis has turned his tour of duty in Iraq and the aftermath of returning home with post-traumatic stress disorder into an opera titled Fallujah. This is the first opera based on the war, and offers startling, musical insight into the mind of a vet struggling with PTSD, and how it affects those around him.
Ellis' experience as a machine gunner in Iraq in 2004, during the bloodiest part of the war, left him with both physical and emotional damage. He suffe...
CA Conrad's blurb for The Heads of My Family, My Friends, My Colleagues (forthcoming from Newlights Press)
The tattoo / underneath the tattoo / speaks the language I want to learn.” Justin Sirois has always been one of my favorite living poets. “You have / everything you need / when you’re naked”, I trust, I trust ALL his discourse with our throbbing excitement for communion. His poems are our best possible use for ears. If I don’t know you and you LOVE these poems as much as I do, let’s get together to read them out loud over a delicious slice of something. “Lick the...
1000th Iraq photo of the day
Haneen Alshujairy, safe in the States.
