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An Evening With Brian Turner
In his poetry and prose, Brian Turner conveys both elegant and devastating portraits of what it means to be a soldier and a human being. Mr. Turner will be at the Spruce Run VFW on Thursday, November 16th to share his work and experience with our community and particularly fellow veterans. His published collections include: Here, Bullet; Phantom Noise; and the memoir My Life as a Foreign Country. His poems and essays have been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, Harper’s, among other fine journals, and he was featured in the documentary film Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience, which was nominated for an Academy Award. A Guggenheim Fellow, he has received a USA Hillcrest Fellowship in Literature, the Amy Lowell Traveling Fellowship, the Poets’ Prize, and a Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. Forthcoming publications are: The Wild Delight of Wild Things (2023), The Goodbye World Poem (2023), and The Dead Peasant’s Handbook (2023), all with Alice James Books.
Mr.Turner served seven years in the US Army, including one year as an infantry team leader in Iraq with the 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division. Prior to that, he was deployed to Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1999-2000 with the 10th Mountain Division.
This event is free of charge and open to the public. Cocktails will be available to purchase. We are very proud to have this exciting event in our community and hope you will join us!"
