W. D. Ehrhart

Biography

W. D. Ehrhart, a former Marine sergeant and veteran of the Vietnam War, holds a PhD in American Studies from the University of Wales, where he did his dissertation on American poetry of the Korean War. He is author of 14 books of prose and poetry, and editor or coeditor of four anthologies, and has been publishing regularly in VQR since 1980. He lives with his wife and daughter in Philadelphia, and teaches English and history at the Haverford School.

See Work

Summer 2001

The Orphan

By W. D. Ehrhart
Spring 1992

After the Latest Victory

By W. D. Ehrhart
Spring 1987

Soldier-Poets of the Vietnam War

By W. D. Ehrhart
ESSAYS / Winter 2002

The Madness of It All: A Rumination on War, Journalism, and Brotherhood

By W. D. Ehrhart

I celebrated Thanksgiving Day 1967 in a sandbagged underground bunker at a Marine outpost called Con Thien on the southern edge of the Vietnamese demilitarized zone. It wasn’t much of a celebration. I’m told that in Vietnamese Con Thien mea...

Summer 1994

No Facts, Only Perceptions

By W. D. Ehrhart
Spring 1987

For Mrs. Na

By W. D. Ehrhart
ESSAYS / Autumn 2002

Drawbridges on the Delaware

By W. D. Ehrhart

Norcross, 37, is not hardhearted. It’s only that if you operate a drawbridge on a navigable waterway in the United States, the First Commandment is unambiguous: thou shalt open the bridge when the ship gets there. You don’t ask the ship to...

Winter 1997

“What Grace is Found in So Much Loss?”

By W. D. Ehrhart
Winter 1989

An Indomitable Poetic Spirit

By W. D. Ehrhart
Winter 1980

Why I Did It

By W. D. Ehrhart