There is a hunger within us for our national issues to be portrayed and memorialized through art in a non-ideological way, a way that speaks to everyone. This is not a uniquely American desire. Every culture has required a remembrance through universal storytelling. Prehistoric peoples drew cave art we are still discovering; the Mesopotamians created The Epic of Gilgamesh; the Israelites received and wrote the Holy Scriptures; the Greeks had the poet Homer.
Ethan McGuire is a writer and a healthcare cybersecurity professional whose essays, fiction, poetry, reviews, and translations have appeared in such publications as Emerald Coast Review, Literary Matters, New Verse News, University Bookman, and Voegelin View. Ethan lives with his wife and their two children in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
