by Rob Haney | Dec 17, 2022 | Blog, Veteran Artist Spotlight
The final artist spotlight for 2022 falls on CBAW Co-Founder and Veteran Artist, Joe Merritt! For December, we are proud to spotlight the awe-inspiring work of CBAW co-founder, and our friend, Joe Merritt. Joe was medically retired from the United States Marine Corps...
by Rob Haney | Nov 12, 2022 | Blog, Veteran Artist Spotlight
Shining a spotlight on Veteran, Poet and Author, Ben Weakley! Today we are honored to spotlight someone who is no stranger to the CBAW community; Our friend and colleague, the incredible, the talented, Ben Weakley! Ben Weakley spent fourteen years in the U.S. Army,...
by Ben Weakley | Nov 11, 2022 | Blog
Veteran and poet, Ben Weakley reflects on life after service in this special Veterans Day blog post. As we approach Veterans Day, I’m re-visiting Phil Klay’s book of short stories, Redeployment. Perspective changes with time and distance, and my current experience...
by Rob Haney | Oct 22, 2022 | Blog, Veteran Artist Spotlight
This month we spotlight Veteran author and storyteller, Ward Mayfield! Ward Mayfield served as a combat engineer twice in Iraq and once in Afghanistan, completing more than 300 missions clearing routes, and detecting and removing improvised explosive devices (IEDs)...
by Seema Reza | Jun 10, 2021 | Blog, Events
Join us: Thursday, June 10 – 7:00 – 8:00pm Special Event Registration Here Experiments Toward Else: In this workshop we will consider the ways that reading or writing a poem might be an act of resuscitation. An awakening of one’s “sight,” mind and...
