Poetry-Loving Soldiers Form Group in Iraq

NPR | By Lulu Garcia-Navarro

Published January 24, 2005 at 12:00 AM EST

Among the U.S. troops serving in Iraq, a small group of soldier-poets convene to share their verses. At Camp Victory, a U.S. military base at Baghdad's international airport, the "poetry jams" occur every two weeks.

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