Proud to Be” Volume Two
“Proud to Be” Volume Two Launch
Friday, November 15, 2013
10 a.m.-12 p.m.
University of Missouri—St. Louis
St. Louis Mercantile Library
AND
7-9 p.m.
St. Louis Public Library Central Branch
Auditorium
Please join us to celebrate the publication of the second volume of the “Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors” anthology series with reading by and about veterans. The anthology is a collection of prose, poetry, interviews and photographs by veterans, military service personnel
and their families.
The series is made possible through collaboration of the Missouri Humanities Council, Southeast Missouri State University Press and the Warriors Arts Alliance.
Both events are free and open to the public. Copies of Volume Two will be available for purchase and signing by some of the authors. All venues are handicapped accessible.
Poem included in “Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors” anthology series by Joseph Carvalko
REGISTERED LETTER
Emotions spill
Sympathy
Endless
Hope—,
Expectancy
Can’t cope
With death,
But all harden
In the footnote1
Of the end
Of hope
Of the hope
Shrouded
and stilled
in the unexpected
envelope.
1. “Since your son, Private First Class…
infantry, was reported missing in action on…
Department of the Army has entertained the hope…
Full consideration has been given to all information…
Accordingly, a finding of death has been recorded under law.”