Source: In The Lines Of Ocean Vuong, Echoes Of His Family’s Past In Vietnam : NPR
On writing about war in his poetry. It feels quintessentially very American to me to be an inheritor of war. My life and my poems try to investigate that intersection of what it means to be an American body born out of violence, making sense out of violence.
Source: (2) National Poetry Month: Bruce Colbert and Graham Timbes
April is National Poetry Month and in commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War, Bruce Colbert and Graham Timbes, 2 talented poets and veterans of that horrendous war in which over 50,000 American men and women lost their lives, will read their poetry on Sunday, April 17 at 3 PM in the Book Cellar at Page & Palette.
Source: In Vietnam, poetry kept Alabama actor Graham Tim
bes sane. 40 years later, he’s sharing it. | AL.com
Timbes left Vietnam with his poems in “a cardboard briefcase that I had bought at the gook shop at Camp Eagle,” as he puts it. There they stayed for 40-odd years. Timbes says that over that course of time
The 97th mission could have broken Air Force Maj. Gen. John Borling.Flying over North Vietnam, groundfire brought down his F-4 Phantom jet.
Roger Kaplan remarks on a few stories about Vietnam that were meant to be forgotten
