Inside Consequence Volume 15.2, you’ll find works from authors and artists from around the world who offer hard-won truths and insights into the realities of war and geopolitical violence. These realities include a young transgender man making sense of his father’s experiences while fighting in Korea (“Korea, No Belt”), the multiple perspectives surrounding US soldiers being spit on when returning from Vietnam (“Spit and Spin: Rival ‘Memory Narratives’ of Veteran Abuse”), and the history of a country as revealed to a young woman by anonymous, pre-WWII photographs (“A Discussion with Ana Prundaru”).

You’ll also find works that address the ways we express these realities in the latest installation of our “What is War Poetry?” series. In our first installations, we focused on these expressions via The Iliad and the Bhagavad Gita. In this iteration, we explore these depictions through a different lens, through texts and ideas that could be construed as antiwar.