Jan Barry is a poet and author whose books include Earth Songs (iUniverse, 2003), Life after War & Other Poems (Combat Paper Press, 2012) and (co-editor) Winning Hearts & Minds: War Poems by Vietnam Veterans (McGraw-Hill, 1972). A U.S. Army veteran of Vietnam, he coordinates Warrior Writers workshops and programs for veterans and family members in New Jersey.

Lamont B. Steptoe, a Vietnam veteran, is a poet, photographer and publisher. He is author of eight books of poetry including Mad Minute (Whirlwind Press, 1993) Uncle’s South China Sea Blue Nightmare (Plan B Press, 2003) and Dusty Road (Whirlwind Press, 1995).

David Connolly served with the Army’s 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment in Vietnam.  He is proud to be a Vietnam Veteran Against the War. His book Lost in America was published in 1994 by Vietnam Generation Press.

W. D. Ehrhart is a Marine Corps veteran of the Vietnam War and a life member of Vietnam Veterans Against the War.  His most recent book is Thank You for Your Service: Collected Poems, (McFarland & Company, Inc., 2019).

Doug Rawlings, a Founder of Veterans For Peace, served in Vietnam for 411 days and nights, from July 1969 to August 1970. He returned confused, angry and “somewhat lost.” A few months later he found a collection of poems by Denise Levertov that captured her journey to North Viet Nam as a peace activist. Doug writes: This was the first serious “discussion” I had read from and about “my” war. And true to what Robert Bly considers effective political poetry, Levertov used the personal to open up the universal. I was captured, and unlike my response to military “service,” I did not want to escape. Instead, I sought out more of her work and other poets and, eventually, began to write my own poems.