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New York state poet  Pamela Hart  has been named one of three finalists has been named one of three finalists in the inaugural  War Poetry Postcard Project (WPPP) , a  literary arts experiment to promote empathy and conversation on the effects of war and violence.  It is co-sponsored by  Middle West Press LLC  and  Collateral Journal . Hart is writer-in-residence at the Katonah Museum of Art in Katonah, N.Y. The author of the poetry collection  Mothers Over Nangarhar   (Sarabande Books), she is also a poetry editor for Afghan Voices and the Afghan Women's Writing Project, and assistant non-fiction editor for  Consequence Forum . The  War Poetry Postcrard Project  contest encouraged short poems engaging themes relevant to armed conflict, state violence, and military service.  Hart’s winning poem describes a dream-like, liminal time-space that interconnects mothers of all eras and nations . The poem begin...

Texas poet and U.S. Army veteran D.A. Gray has been named one of three finalists in the inaugural  War Poetry Postcard Project (WPPP) , a  literary arts experiment to promote empathy and conversation on the effects of war and violence.  It is co-sponsored by  Middle West Press LLC  and  Collateral Journal . Gray is the author of the poetry collections  Overwatch  (Grey Sparrow Press) and  Contested Terrain  (FutureCycle Press). He earned his Master of Fine Arts at the Sewanee School of Letters. A retired U.S. Army soldier, Gray now teaches and writes in Central Texas. The War Poetry Postcrard Project encouraged short poems engaging themes relevant to armed conflict, state violence, and military service. Finalist  D.A. Gray’s  winning poem,  “A.M. radio,”  depicts an emotionally harrowing road trip of two wartime colleagues punctuated by bursts of radio talk-show static. The poem reads, in part: [...] A man’s voice s...

Southern California artist and poet Jane Yevgenia Muschenetz  has been named the first-place winner of inaugural War Poetry Postcard Project (WPPP) , a literary arts experiment to promote empathy and conversation on the effects of war and violence. It is co-sponsored by Middle West Press LLC and Collateral Journal . Earlier this year , contest organizers editors called for new and reprint  postcard-sized poems  that thematically engaged with the  effects of armed conflict, state violence, and military service. Muschenetz’s poem will now be one of three prize-winning works to be  published and distributed as visually engaging glossy 4x6 postcards , each suitable for mailing to friends, family, politicians, and others. EVERYONE who entered the contest will be mailed a set of the finalist postcards! ( Additional sets of the 2025 finalist postcards can be ordered via Submittable  here at this link .) All entries will also be considered for inclusion in a pot...