Participating Authors read and commented on excerpts of their work.

There is a transcript of the event here, in addition to a RealAudio recording.

Jackie Loring

Curse the Rainbow, pub. in From Both Sides Now

Jade Ngoc Quang Huynh

Gifts for My Family, by Viet Dzung

Gifts for My Family (in English)

South Wind Changing, Ch. 11

South Wind Changing, Ch. 22

Laura Palmer, excerpts from Shrapnel in the Heart

introduction

Why God, a poem by Bob Kalsu

A Letter by Carole Ann Paige

Hello, David, a poem by 'Dusty'

A Letter by Eleanor Wimbish

Marilyn McMahon, excerpts from Visions of War, Dreams of Peace

An Introduction in Three Voices

Confession

Dying With Grace

Knowing

In This Land

Wounds of War

Philip Caputo

A Rumor of War, excerpt

Tim O'Brien, from The Things They Carried

How to Tell a True War Story

Yusef Komunyakaa, excerpts from Dien Cai Dau

A Break From the Bush

Camouflaging the Chimera

To Have Danced With Death

You and I Are Disappearing

Facing It

Prisoners

Thanks

Tu Do Street

We Never Know

 

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