Rough Seas: Reading and Reflections on War and Writing. With Jim Grigg and Heather Dupont.

In Honor of Veterans Day

presenting 

Rough Seas

Readings and Reflections

on War and Writing

from the Cape Ann Veterans Writing Workshop

Join us for an evening to honor Veterans Day

Featured Readers

James Grigg, Poet, Viet Nam Veteran

 Heather Dupont, Poet, V.A. Health Professional

Sign up at 7:15 for the Veterans Open Mic.

Uncaring of the labors of man

The towering waves tear souls and sails

Such fury has the mind awakened.

James Grigg from Rough Seas

we stand facing The Wall

his trembling fragmentation

palpable as he whispers “I need to sit down”

Heather Dupont from Faded Songs

James Grigg was born in Bremen, Germany in 1946. He moved to the USA and was raised in Gloucester, Mass. After graduating from Gloucester High School he joined the Marines in 1965. He served in Viet Nam from 1966-67. In 1969 he was honorably discharged as a sergeant having worked as a weapons and marksmanship instructor. James has been writing recently since 2013 and participating in a Veterans Writing Workshop in Gloucester run by Dorothy S. Nelson. Most of his writings are about war, about his own experiences and those told to him by other Viet Nam Veterans, many suffering from PTS.

Heather Dupont retired to New Hampshire after a career working with military veterans at a VA hospital.  She has been published in The Poet’s Touchstone, NH Poetry Society Journal.  She participated in the first four years of Writers In The Round Star Island as well as eight years in the long-running Monadnock Pastoral Poets Retreat. Recently it has been her privilege to join the Veterans Writing Workshop in Gloucester.  Some of her poems portray aspects of Veterans’ lives, and it was her pleasure to give John Rogers a framed copy of War Dance while he was still living.  He asked that his story be made public.  Thanks to Dorothy Nelson for her dedication to bringing forward our writings in the anthology The Inner Voice and the Outer World.