Women Warriors- poetry and essay reading by Veterans

Local women share their experiences as service members and veterans through poems, stories, essays, and readings. Watch last year’s powerful program here.

Women Warriors Women’s Voices 2026 is presented by the Providence Clemente Veterans Initiative (PCVI), which has provided free humanities programming to RI, MA and CT veterans since 2019. For this year’s event the PCVI received a grant from the RI State Department of Veterans Affairs.

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During the past decade, a million veterans have returned from deployment overseas. Many of them face physical and emotional challenges that make transitioning back to civilian life particularly daunting.

Established in 2015, the Clemente Veterans’ Initiative (CVI) invites students to renew their sense of purpose through deep engagement with the humanities. Exploring questions of war, civic duty, family, and sacrifice, CVI offers veterans a chance to place their personal experience into a broader perspective, one that helps them connect their military experience with their civilian lives.

Space may be limited for free public event.
There is sldo the option for virtual.
5pm refreshments, 5:30pm program starts. Open to all who are interested or support.

Registration for in-person required: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/in-person-women-warriors-womens-voices-tickets-1978626847163?utm_experiment=test_share_listing&aff=ebdsshios&sg=9b92a613ccc3394c97abfd5cf3ca7970cfab13317ef168dda022909e83f8a473d0ee01b40ae9898ffff7c0c9e0c2b08ef4dae097cf4e5d352b3d0587ce488c03ac945f5d5f657179043bbaa0