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...
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,...
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...
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)...
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...
