Hugh Martin | The Sun Magazine

Hugh Martin

Hugh Martin is a veteran of the Iraq War and the author of The Stick Soldiers and the forthcoming In Country. He is currently a PhD student at Ohio University. Before joining the military, he played basketball in leagues around Akron, Ohio, against a younger player named LeBron James.

— From July 2018
Poetry

All The While The Women

Days & nights I carried two weapons everywhere. / I wore pockets of bullets / across my chest. I wasn’t / of age.

July 2018
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