University of Mississippi students, under the guidance of faculty and staff, will lead community discussions on the the war and homecoming, based on humanities texts (Homer’s “Odyssey,” Maximilian Uriarte’s graphic novel “The White Donkey,” and short-form poetry by veterans of the Post 9/11 conflicts) in two North Mississippi public libraries. The program is particularly designed for veteran participants, but open to anyone interested, and is meant to help veterans contextualize and process their experiences of the relation between military life and “the home front” in a trans-historical context accessed through reading in the humanities
