Submitted by Prairie Schooner on Wed, 01/29/2014 - 09:22
First, I want to thank Brian Turner and all the staff who worked on A War Portfolio to make it a part of the Winter 2013 issue of Prairie Schooner. I’d also like to thank the writers and poets whose work is featured in the volume. I hope my words seem humble, because I feel humble in the face of the subject, the talent, the effort that this work represents. The voices in these pages have challenged me as a reader, influenced me as a writer, and I know that I have grown as a human being in the experience of them.
Some pieces in the issue haunt me. I don’t even have to pick up the volume to remember them. I don’t know what I can write to explain or describe my response to “Child Bomb.” Pedro Serrano found the words to tell this story, but I find none I can use in reply.