H. C. Palmer

H.C. Palmer, a retired Internist. He served as a Battalion Surgeon with the First Infantry Division in Vietnam in 1965-66. His work has appeared in New Letters, Poetry Daily, War Literature and the Arts, Narrative Magazine, The New Mexico Poetry Review, I-70 Review, Flint Hills Review, Gray’s Sporting Journal and other journals and anthologies. His first book of poems, FEET OF THE MESSENGER, from BkMk Press, the University of Missouri, Kansas City was released in October, 2017. He works with a veterans writing program in partnership with the Kansas City Public Libraries, The Writers Place and the Moral Injury Foundation of America. Feet of the Messenger was a finalist for the 2017 Balcones Poetry Prize and is a 2018 Kansas Notable Book. He is the 2018 Anthony Hecht Scholar at the Sewanee Writers Conference. See: www.feet-of-the-messenger.com