Poetry helps us speak the unspeakable and feel deeply. Award-winning poets whose poems of war, memory, and reconciliation will arouse our empathy and understanding of the war in Vietnam and its profound consequences. 

Moderated by Julie Carr, professor, Department of English and Creative Writing.

Poets Reciting Via Zoom:

• Jan Barry
• Teresa Mei Chuc
• Wayne Karlin
• Yusef Komunyakaa
• Hoa Nguyen
• Kimberly Nguyen
• Doug Rawlings
• Bruce Weigl

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This event is being held in association with the exhibition “Waging Peace In Vietnam: U.S. Soldiers and Veterans Who Opposed the War,” opening at the University Libraries on October 30 in Norlin Library’s Underground West Gallery on the first floor. The exhibition documents the GI anti-war movement and their profound effect on the war through first-hand accounts, oral histories, posters, photographs, essays, underground newspapers and material from the U.S. National Archives.

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