Ukrainian soldier rescuing a tiny baby from the devastation caused by Russian shelling near Irpin in Kyiv oblast | Photo: Timothy Fadek, CNN Author’s Note: I’m thankful to Askold Melnyczuk whose words made me
Black Butterflies over BaghdadBy: David Allen SullivanPublished: Oct. 2021 (The Word Works) Building on his earlier poetry collection about U.S. soldiers who served in Iraq (Every Seed of the Pomegranate, 2012) David Allen Sullivan, poet-laureate
silent under her gray-swept wingsthe wrinkled sands slide. over qalats, wadis,waters, all the brown earth she slips, waiting to go kinetic. in her belly the missile lies primed, dreaming its dream of falling death. through
I can’t write anything long because we’re still on the run, with my kids who are right here next to me. So, in brief: Ukraine was not “dragged into” war; it was attacked. Without even
2034: A Novel of the Next World WarBy: Elliot Ackerman and James StavridisPublished: March 2021 (Penguin Press) In a culture saturated with eco-dystopian future fantasies, a novel about the next world war on a still
Charité at WarDirected by Anno SaulRelease Date (Streaming): June, 2019 (Netflix) Charité at War, a Netflix series directed by Anno Saul, recounts the period before and during the last major battle of WWII, the Battle
Ursula Zadik’s German passport, issued by the Nazis on December 9, 1936.This is the second page, which shows the Nazi insignia stamp. My parents, Ursula and Erwin, didn’t leave Nazi Germany until 1939. By then
Russian demonstrators outside the US Embassy in Moscow, Russia, March 27, 1999.Photographer unknown. Author’s collection. Editor’s Note: This essay appeared in Volume 13 MARYLAND: JANUARY 6, 2021 My neighbor Paula, a calm and
Cold Case Hammarskjöld Director: Mads BrüggerReleased: Aug. 16, 2019 (United States) It’s hard not to have noticed that documentary film—a genre once reviled for its standard fare of eat-your-vegetables instructional films—is enjoying a creative and
for Omari from Afghanistan You shouldn’t have done it, Janna. Happiness is a simple thing, you said. Happiness is a cool shadow and you looking at me. But we don’t have cool shadows in
Scene of Achilles tending to Patroclus We are so proud and excited to publish WIDOWS, a new long poem by Tom Sleigh, which appears in full for the first time here at Consequence Forum.
The War Makes Everyone LonelyBy: Graham Barnhart Published: Nov. 2019 (University of Chicago Press) Kill ClassBy:Nomi StonePublished: Feb. 2019 (Tupelo Press) Graham Barnhart’s The War Makes Everyone Lonely and Nomi Stone’s Kill Class both
