In addition to hosting the usual lit world all-stars at the biannual Dodge Poetry Festival next weekend, the NJ Performing Arts Center in Newark will host a reading from a different front: poet veterans. Another Kind of Courage will feature work from Warrior Writers and Combat Paper Literary Troop, two organizations devoted to helping vets find their voices and promoting their writing. As the Daily Record reports, this work is vital, both in offering veterans an alternative to the military culture of silence, and as a contribution to the larger conversation of contemporary literature.
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