How to Build Your Own Veteran Writers Group

Edited by Maxine Hong Kingston

Table of Contents

Introductions

• How to Build Your Own Veteran Writers Group, by Maxine Hong Kingston
• Anatomy of the Magic of the Vets Writing Days, by Miki Kashtan
• Everything is Optional, by Gregory Ross
• Share Pain, Heal, by Gregory Ross
• Haiku, by Dennis Fritzinger
• writing group , by Dennis Fritzinger

Letters of Invitation

• June Writing Group Letter, by Gregory Ross
• Does writing change anything?, by Fred Marchant
• Winter Retreat, by Nancy Sue Brink
• Hesitation Prompt, by Fred Marchant
• Walking Poem or Prose Vignette, by Phyllis Meshulam
• Hello, Writers, by Phyllis Meshulam
• Writing from Story, by Clare Morris
• Letter from Ghana, by Miki Kashtan
• Letter from Maui, by Maxine Hong Kingston
• Texas Veterans Writing Sangha, by Doug Zachary
• For, by Fred Marchant
• Spring Equinox Veterans Meeting 2009 by Joanne Palamountain and Earll Kingston
• The Conscience Prompt by Fred Marchant
• Love Letter to My Enemy by Tom Harriman
• The Crescent Moon Bear by Clare Morris, based on a telling by Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Getting Started

• Cline’s Corner, by Doug Zachary
• The First Veterans Writing Workshop in Texas, by Mike Wong
• Hosting a Veterans Writing Group, by Bill Boykin
• Of Age and Sitting, by Michael Wong

Deep Listening

• Deep Listening, by Dennis Fritzinger
• i am the bell, by Dennis Fritzinger
• On Silence, by Mike Wong

Writing

• Like Herding Cats: Workshop for Recalcitrant Writers, by Bonnie Bonner
• Writing About War and Peace: Inside a Veterans Group, by Shepherd Bliss
• Writing The Fifth Book of Peace, by Maxine Hong Kingston.
• Using the Five Precepts as Plots, by Maxine Hong Kingston

Meditation

• Sitting Meditation, by Amaravati Buddhist Centre
• Walking Meditation, by Thich Nhat Hanh
• Eating Meditation, by Dennis Fritzinger