​​   We are looking for contributing poets & encourage you 
​   to submit your poems relating to the  War in Vietnam. 
   Submissions  are now  Open.
   When open, please click on the  SUBMISSIONS  page for info & to  SUBMIT.   Thank you.  

          We like to think you will find some poetry within these pages
          that fulfills that for which you are looking, 
          Our contributing poets include wide ranges:  veterans & civilians, male & female, 
          established award-winning world-class poets & academics
          to some highly-promising & intriguing newbies. 

          Also, styles & forms include stream of consciousness prose poems,
          extremely detailed imagery, involved stories & tales to more traditional poems & song lyrics.  
          Location settings can cover the map from Vietnam to USA.  
          Points of view from personal experiences & relationships to situations inspired by others.  
          Ideological / political perspectives know no bounds.  

          Most recent additions in top section of this page & at top of each contributor's page. 
          Click on the contributor's name to pull up that person's page. 
          Brief biography for each contributing poet below poems, at bottom of their page. 
          ​Enjoy. 

 FEATURED POET
W.D. Ehrhart
[ 1 of America’s best-known Viet Vet poets.   
​Author or editor of 21 books, he is in  The New Oxford Book of War Poetry;  
Vietnam: A Television History ('83);  Making Sense of the 60s ('91);  Ken Burns' Vietnam War ('17) ]​
​​​More from W.D. Ehrhart below​

CONTRIBUTING POETS - NEW
 [ Newest on top ]

​Le Pham Le and Nancy Arbuthnot
​Richard Eric Johnson
David E. Poston
​​Vincent Phillips
​Philip Bartram
​​Kathy Silvey
​​Philippe R. Hebert
​​Sterling Warner
Robert Beckvall
I. D. Edgewater
Jennifer Lemming
Robert Mella

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​CONTRIBUTING POETS - PREVIOUS
 [ a-z ] ​​​

Sananda Allsgood
​​
John Balaban
Chris Barnes
Barry Basden
Mary Buchinger
John Buquoi
SK Burnette
Arlin Buyert

Thomas G. Calabrese
Wendy Taylor Carlisle
William Conelly
Chella Courington

Lisa del Rosso

FEATURED -  W.D. Ehrhart                              
Art Elser
Michael Estabrook

Vern Fein
Roberta Feins
Mark Fleisher
James Fowler
Richard H. Fox

Bruce Gaughran
Susan Glass
Mel Goldberg
Peter D. Goodwin
​​
David M. Harris
Lois Marie Harrod
Mary Hennessy   (Mary Anson)
Victor Henry
Granville Holt
Justin Hunt

Linda Jassim
Michael Lee Johnson

Raymond Keen
Laurie Kuntz

Jennifer Lagier
Joyce LeBaron
Mary Leonard
Martin H. Levinson
Dar Lowery

​Bob MacKenzie
Eileen Malone
​John C. Mannone
Jim McGarrah
Donald McNamara
Mushroom Montoya
Margaret S. Mullins

​Carl "Papa" Palmer​​​
Jimmy Pappas
Ester Prudlo

Ann Quinn
z. m. quynh

David Radavich
Peter Robinson
Nia Nguyễn Rodé
Irene Romilly
Fred Rosenblum

David Sandgrund
Ellin Sarot
Robert J. Savino
Paul Scollan
Peter Seidman
Cynthia M. Sheward
Mike Stentoumis
Kristin Stoner
Paul M. Strohm
Mary Ellen Talley
​Mick Terry
Mary Langer Thompson
Brian Michael Tracy


Michael Waterson
Ray Whitaker
Ronald J. Whittle
Martin Willits, Jr.
Eliot khalil Wilson
Anne Harding Woodworth
Heather Wyatt

Andrena Zawinski