Mihalić je pjesnik grada, pjesnik razdrtih ulica, tužnih trgova. Danas je i ta urbana sredina, neminovno, zaogrnuta plaštem psihoze rata. To zlo, taj vječiti neprijatelj svega ljudskog omogućio je Mihaliću da se snažno i potresno iskaže i kao pjesnik rata
Mile Stojić (b. 1951), a Bosnian poet, published Dinner Without Politics in 2005 – one of the most respected collections from his post-war opus, awarded as a manuscript in the Foundation's Publishing Competition.
Emina Kovačević (b. 1995, Jablanica, raised in Mostar) debuted with the collection Poems from a UNICEF Notebook. The title alludes to the blue UNICEF notebook from her childhood – a symbol of humanitarian aid, the post-war period, and her first writing.
"Many years ago I published a number of poems, and forgot about them. I was fifteen years old at the time. Actually, I was thirteen or fourteen when I wrote them, and they were published as "Poems of a Fifteen-Year-Old" in the magazine Forum."