Jan Barry

Waging Peace: From Vietnam to Volgograd

Published July 2025

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Waging Peace: From Vietnam to Volgograd is a collection of essays, poetry and art by Jan Barry, a Veterans For Peace Poet Laureate and cofounder of Vietnam Veterans Against the War. The memoir conveys memorable stories about the transformation of soldiers in war zones into communities of peace activists. Jan Barry is the author of Waging Art: Tackling Grief and Trauma with Creative Arts, among other works.

 

"Jan Barry has woven decades of waging peace into this spectacular book, growing from a 19-year-old aviation radio specialist in the early years of the Vietnam war to peace activist elder. He details astounding antiwar campaigns … to find creative responses to seemingly endless wars and threats of war." 

--Tara Krause, artist, poet, West Pointer, veteran of nuclear cold war and first gulf war

Waging Art: Tackling Grief and Trauma with Creative Arts

Published June 2023

Paperback $15  220 pp.

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Waging Art conveys a variety of stories about ways that creative arts help heal wounded hearts and minds. It is based on the author's experiences participating with other military veterans and family members in writing and art workshops and public presentations.

 

 

Earth Songs II: Poems of Love, Loss and Life

Published October 2018

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"Jan Barry's anti-war poetry is a powerful voice for peace in our bellicose times."  

   --Peter Neil Carroll, author of Fracking Dakota:  Poems for a Wounded Land 

 

"Jan Barry's war poetry can be understood as an act of artistic rebellion. Among the 'non-war' poems are incredibly moving pieces, threaded through with profound grief and sadness but also resilience and determination. The subtitle of the book captures this perfectly—these are indeed poems of love and loss and life. " 

   --Adam Gilbert, author of A Shadow on Our  Hearts: Soldier-Poetry, Morality and the American War in Vietnam