“Charlie Sherpa,” Continued
This is an extensive listing of military-themed publications, awards, and events by Randy “Sherpa” Brown, a.k.a. “Charlie Sherpa.” This list does not include blogs. Short and long biographies for the writer are available here.
BOOKS & CHAPBOOKS
BOOKS & CHAPBOOKS
- “Welcome to FOB Haiku: War Poems from Inside the Wire” (Middle West Press LLC, poetry collection, 2015); author
- “Reporting for Duty: Citizen-Soldier Journalism from the Afghan Surge, 2010-2011” (Middle West Press LLC, 2016); editor
- “Why We Write: Craft Essays on Writing War” (Middle West Press LLC, non-fiction anthology, 2019); co-editor
- “So Frag & So Bold: Short Poems, Aphorisms & Other Wartime Fun” (Middle West Press LLC, poetry chapbook, 2021); author
- “Twelve O’Clock Haiku: Leadership Lessons from Old War Movies & New Poems” (Middle West Press LLC, hybrid monograph, 2022); author
- First-prize: "Untold Stories" contest, Flyway Journal (2018)
- Honorable mention, poetry: "Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors," Vol. 7, Southeast Missouri State University Press (2018)
- Finalist, poetry: Line of Advance journal's Third Annual Col. Darron L. Wright military writing awards (2018)
- Nomination, Pushcart Prize, poetry: "fighting seasons," War, Literature & the Arts journal (2017)
- Finalist, poetry: Line of Advance journal's Second Annual Col. Darron L. Wright military writing awards (2017)
- Winner, essay: Madigan Award for humorous military writing, Negative Capability Press, Mobile, Ala. (2015)
- Finalist, poetry: "Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors," Vol. 4, Southeast Missouri State University Press, (2015)
- Winner, independent-blogging category, Military Reporters and Editors (2012)
- Finalist, "reporter" category, Milblogging.com annual awards (2012)
- Finalist, "veteran" category, Milblogging.com annual awards (2011)
- Johnson County (Kansas) Bar Association Luncheon (Nov, 17, 2021)
- Norwich University Military Writers’ Symposium (Oct. 7-8, 2020)
- Americans for the Arts (AFTA) national convention, Minneapolis, Minn. (Jun. 14-16, 2019)
- War, Literature & the Arts Journal 30th Anniversary conference, Colorado Springs, Colo. (Sept. 20-21, 2018)
- Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP), Washington, D.C. (Feb. 8-11, 2017)
- Military Experience and the Arts Symposium II, Cameron University, Lawton, Okla. (May 14-17, 2015)
- Great Plains Writers’ Conference, South Dakota State University, Brookings, S.D. (March 23-25, 2014)
- “Writing My Way Back Home” workshop for veterans, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA (Apr. 5-7, 2013)
- New Media Expo (Military track), Las Vegas, NV (Jan. 6-8, 2013)
- “Telling: Des Moines” cast member, Des Moines (Iowa) Area Community College (November 2012)
- “Sangria Summit: A Military Writers’ Conference,” Denver, Colo. (Sept. 13-15, 2012)
- Military Experience and the Arts Symposium, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, Ky. (July 5-7, 2012)
- “City of Hustle: A Sioux Falls Anthology,” Belt Publishing, 2022; contributor
- “Level Land: Poems for and about the I35 Corridor,” Lamar University Literary Press, 2022; contributor
- “Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors,” Vol. 10, Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2021; contributor
- “Our Best War Stories: Prize-winning Poetry & Prose from the Col. Darron L. Wright Memorial Awards,” Middle West Press LLC, 2020; contributor
- “Local News: Poetry about Small Towns,” MWPH Books, 2019; contributor
- “Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors,” Vol. 8, Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2019; contributor
- “Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors,” Vol. 7, Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2018; contributor
- “Beyond the Hill,” Lost Tower Publications, 2017; contributor
- “Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors,” Vol. 6, Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2017; contributor
- “Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors,” Vol. 5, Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2016; contributor
- “No, Achilles: War Poetry,” Water Wood Press, 2015; contributor
- “Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors,” Vol. 4, Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2015; contributor
- “Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors,” Vol. 3, Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2014; contributor
- “Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors,” Vol. 2, Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2013; contributor
- “Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors,” Vol. 1, Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2012; contributor
- “War, Poetry and the Places They Meet” first appeared in Consequence Forum, April 2020
- “Marvin Cone Goes to War” first appeared in Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors, Vol. 6, Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2017
- “Battle Sight Zero," first appeared in Drunken Boat No. 24, Fall/Winter 2016.
- “In the Valley of Lions," first appeared in Proud to Be: Writing by America’s Warriors, Vol. 2, Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2013
- “Airman, Second Grade” first appeared in the Veterans Writing Project’s print journal O-Dark-Thirty, summer 2017.
- “America” first appeared in the on-line journal The Wrath-Bearing Tree, July 6, 2020.
- “Better Hooches and Gardens” first appeared on Flyway: Journal of Writing & Environment, Summer 2018.
- “Bullet proof me” first appeared in The Pass In Review Vol. 1, No. 1, spring 2014.
- “Boldly Go” first appeared in The Red Shirt Review, an e-chapbook published by The Daily Drunk July 1, 2022.
- “The bottlefall at COP Najil” first appeared in the on-line journal The Wrath-Bearing Tree, March 3, 2017.
- “Café Sessrúmnir” first appeared in The Pass In Review Vol. 1, No. 1, spring 2014.
- “Carry on” first appeared in Line of Advance Vol. 1, No. 1, spring 2014.
- “A chaplain’s assistance writes haiku” first appeared on Flyway: Journal of Writing & Environment, Summer 2018.
- “Clauswitzian nature poem” first appeared in Collateral Journal 4.2, spring 2020.
- “Combat patch” first appeared in The Pass In Review Vol. 1, No. 1, spring 2014.
- “Contact print” first appeared in So It Goes: The Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Library No. 5, November 2016. The theme of the issue was “Indiana.”
- “Daily exercise (haiku)” first appeared in the on-line journal The Wrath-Bearing Tree, July 6, 2020.
- “Dawn patrol” first appeared via the Veterans Writing Project’s online journal O-Dark-Thirty May 2, 2014.
- “Fighting seasons” first appeared in Midwestern Gothic No. 17, summer 2015. Also in War, Literature, and the Arts 2016.
- “A Forward Observer writes haiku” first appeared via the Veterans Writing Project’s online journal O-Dark-Thirty Oct. 19, 2015.
- “A future space marine writes haiku” first appeared in the on-line journal The Wrath-Bearing Tree, Oct. 1, 2018.
- “Grace, Ready-to-Eat” first appeared via the online journal Ash & Bones April 17, 2015.
- “The Ground Truth” first appeared in Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors,” Vol. 7, Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2018.
- “Hamlet in Afghanistan” first appeared in The Deadly Writers Patrol No. 10, spring 2015.
- “Heavy blanket cover fire” first appeared in Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors, Vol. 5, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, Mo.
- “The homecoming game, a war sonnet” first appeared in the on-line journal The Wrath-Bearing Tree, March 3, 2017.
- “I tell my children” first appeared in the on-line journal The Wrath-Bearing Tree, July 6, 2020.
- “Jody stole your haiku tools” first appeared in The Deadly Writers Patrol No. 10, spring 2015.
- “Just-another-day haiku” first appeared in Collateral Journal 4.2, spring 2020.
- “Kintsugi” first appeared in So It Goes: The Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Library No. 3, November 2014. The theme of the issue was “creative process.”
- “Laundry list” first appeared in The Deadly Writers Patrol No. 10, spring 2015.
- “Leaving empty” first appeared via the online journal Scintilla No. 6, spring 2014. The theme of the issue was “Literature of War: At Home and Abroad.”
- “Love sonnet to a new K-pot” first appeared on the Veterans Writing Project’s online journal O-Dark-Thirty Mar. 26, 2015. Also appeared in F(r)iction No. 8, Summer 2017.
- “A military professional writes haiku” first appeared on Tom Ricks' "Best Defense" blog at Foreign Policy magazine Jan. 24, 2017
- “Most Likely / Most Dangerous Enemy Courses of Action” first appeared in the on-line journal The Wrath-Bearing Tree, Oct. 1, 2018
- “N.B.C.-4 report follows” first appeared in Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors, Vol. 4, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, Mo., 2015
- “Night vision” first appeared in the 2015 war poetry anthology No, Achilles: War Poetry, Water Wood Press, Huntsville, Texas
- “Normally a serious man” first appeared in The Unofficial Anecdotal History of Challenge Coins, Tayler Corp., Orem, Utah, April 2015
- “A poem” first appeared in Collateral Journal 4.2, spring 2020.
- “Quiet as TOC-rats” first appeared in The Pass In Review Vol. 1, No. 1, spring 2014
- “The Quotable Shai Hulud, Subway Sandwich Artist(tm), Abridged” first appeared in The Daily Drunk November 2021.
- “A Radio-Telephone Operator writes haiku” first appeared in the 2015 anthology Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors, Vol. 4, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, Mo., where it received a recognition in poetry.
- “Red moon rising” first appeared on The Good Men Project website Sept. 28, 2015
- “The stand” first appeared in the on-line journal The Wrath-Bearing Tree, Oct. 1, 2018
- “Suburbistan” first appeared in the 2014 anthology Proud to Be: Writing by America’s Warriors, Vol. 3, Southeast Missouri State University Press, Cape Girardeau, Mo.
- “10 haiku about Operation Desert Storm” first appeared in the anthology Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors, Vol. 6, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, Mo., 2017
- “10 haiku about a state fair” first appeared in the Corn Belt Almanac, The Heart & The Hand Press, Philadelphia, June 2015
- “Tell me how this ends” first appeared in Collateral Journal, Fall/Winter 2018
- “This is just to say again all after” first appeared in the on-line journal The Wrath-Bearing Tree, Oct. 1, 2018.
- “Three tanka from Des Moines, Iowa, Spring 2016” first appeared in the on-line journal The Wrath-Bearing Tree, March 3, 2017
- “Three more tanka from Des Moines, Iowa, Spring 2016” first appeared in the on-line journal The Wrath-Bearing Tree, Oct. 1, 2018
- “Toward a poetics of lessons-learned” first appeared in Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors, Vol. 5, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, Mo., 2016
- “Toward an understanding of war and poetry, told (mostly) in aphorisms” first appeared in the on-line journal The Wrath-Bearing Tree, March 3, 2017.
- “Transitive properties” first appeared in So It Goes: The Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Library No. 6, November 2017. The theme of the issue was “common decency.”
- “Unmasking” first appeared in the The New Verse News, May 21, 20220
- “A veteran Pokémon-Go trainer leaving Bagram writes haiku” first appeared in The New Verse News, July 8, 2021.
- “Victory conditions” first appeared in the on-line journal The Wrath-Bearing Tree, Oct. 1, 2018.
- “Wait for it” first appeared in The Pass In Review Vol. 1, No. 2, summer 2014.
- “We are the stories” first appeared in Spillway No. 23, June/July 2015. The theme of the issue was “everyday epiphanies.”
- “Wearing the tree suit” first appeared in Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors, Vol. 10, Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2021;
- “What sacrifice has been” first appeared in Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors, Vol. 1, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, Mo., 2012
- “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot” first appeared in Stone Canoe, No. 11, Spring 2017
- “Your convoy leader writes haiku” first appeared in Line of Advance Vol. 1, No. 1, spring 2014.
- “Your drill sergeant writes haiku, too” first appeared in The Deadly Writers Patrol No. 10, spring 2015.
- “Your squad leader writes haiku” first appeared in The Pass In Review Vol. 1, No. 2, summer 2014.
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