Combat and Campus: Writing Through War - Outdoor Book Launch with Annette Grunseth
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Saturday, May 22, 2021 11am - 1pm
Location
Lion's Mouth Bookstore
211 N. Washington St.
Details
Join Lion's Mouth Bookstore for our first outdoor event of the season as we celebrate the publication of Annette Grunseth's Combat and Campus: Writing Through War (Elm Grove Press, 2021). This outdoor event will take place on the City Deck Landing Patio, which Lion's Mouth shares with the City Deck Landing apartments next door.
About the book:
As a journalist and soldier with the 25th Infantry Division, riding armored personnel carriers into rice paddies, engaging in night time sweeps of the jungle, Sgt. Peter Langlois chronicles the smells, sights, and sounds during some of the darkest days of the war from 1968 – ’69. He would return home to a nation still protesting the war in which his younger sister, Annette, had walked to class behind National Guardsmen marching across the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Their correspondence and her poetry in Combat and Campus: Writing Through War offer a unique perspective of the war in Vietnam and social change happening at home. Together, they share what was learned and what was lost.
Annette Langlois Grunseth, is a poet and writer in Green Bay/Allouez who is a lifelong learner, enjoys all things outdoors, including exploring state and national parks, writing from her kayak, and nature photography. A Pushcart Prize nominee, she has published two books, Becoming Trans-Parent: One Family’s Journey of Gender Transition and “Combat and Campus: Writing Through War as well as many poems in journals and anthologies.
