Kevin Powers was born and raised in Richmond, VA. In 2004 and 2005 he served with the U.S. Army in Mosul and Tal Afar, Iraq. He studied English at Virginia Commonwealth University after his honorable discharge and received an M.F.A. in Poetry from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin in 2012.
We were not destined to survive. The fact is, we were not destined at all. The war would take what it could get.
There is a sharp distinction between what is remembered, what is told and what is true.
All choices are illusions, or if they are not illusions their strength is illusory, for one choice must contend with the choices of all the other men and women deciding anything in that moment.
Freedom is not the same as lack of accountability.
My personal opinion is that if someone writes honestly about war, it will inherently be anti-war.
