Traveling 'Meditation on War' to Tour Minnesota

PHOTO: Minnesota Humanities Council Veterans' Voices

A traveling exhibit that pairs Pulitzer Prize-winning photographs with literary meditations on war will tour multiple sites in 2014-2015 as part of the Minnesota Humanities Council's Veterans Voices program. "Always Lost: A Meditation on War" opened Mon., Oct. 13 at Carleton College, Northfield, Minn. through Oct. 24. According to the council, the exhibit "brings home the personal and collective costs of war and honors those who made the ultimate sacrifice in Iraq and Afghanistan."

In a related event, Iraq War veteran and poet Brian Turner, author of the recently published memoir "My Life as a Foreign Country," will read his poetry and prose at Carleton College's Weitz Center for Creativity Tues., Oct. 21st, from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. The event is open to the public. For details, click here.

Additional of installations of the "Always Lost" exhibit include:

2014 "ALWAYS LOST" EXHIBIT SITES

• November 3 to November 17: Southwest Veterans Association, Marshall

• November 24 to December 8: Normandale Community College, Bloomington

• December 15- to January 26: Minneapolis Community and Technical College, Minneapolis

2015 "ALWAYS LOST" EXHIBIT SITES

• February 23 to March 11: Distance Minnesota, Perham

• April 15 April 24: University of St. Thomas School of Law, Minneapolis

• May 1 to May 15: Rochester Community and Technical College, Rochester

• July 31 to Aug. 21: Metropolitan State University, St. Paul

• September 4 to September 25: South Central Community College, Faribault