Abby E. Murray is War Postcard Project's "Keynote Poet"
Author of the poetry collections “Hail and Farewell” (Perugia Press, 2019) and the forthcoming “Recovery Commands” (Ex Ophidia Press, 2025), Abby E. Murray (they/them) is now also author of the “keynote” poem for the War Poetry Postcard Project (WPPP) . Murray’s poem “Hello, I am Not a Soldier,” wrestles with a daily dissonance felt as a spouse in an active-duty U.S. Army family: “[...] Wherever I go, I cling to my hope / like a weapon I have been trained to love.” The work was first published on-line in Rattle magazine Nov. 17, 2024. Now, it will be produced and shared with others on a postcard! “Like many of our fellow citizen-poets, we’ve been struggling to find constructive, useful ways to deploy our words and talents in a world of increasing fascism, racism, genocide, and cruelty ,” says Randy Brown , editor-publisher of the independent micro-press Middle West Press LLC . “For us, Abby’s poem provides a perfect example o...