The First World War saw an outburst of poetic creativity unmatched in European history. Fueled by bitter anger at a war that destroyed the comfortable world of Victorian prosperity and complacency, ...
ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL, Ill. -- War is hell; its horrors brought to light in literature, art and music. Usually portrayed as filled with fire and brimstone, hell can also be a cold, wet and very muddy ...
Harvey Shapiro, a poet and World War II veteran, discusses the works included in Poets of World War II, an anthology that he has edited for the Library of America’s American Poets Project. The ...
In “Muse of Fire,” Michael Korda depicts the lives and passions of the soldier poets whose verse provided a view into the carnage of World War I. By Alice Winn Alice Winn is the author of “In Memoriam ...
In Lyudmyla Khersonska’s 2022 poem “War. Day 1,” a woman wearing “cheery pajamas” wakes up to an uninvited guest outside her door: Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. “In the morning, rockets ...
The Kootenai County man wanted to tell the stories of the Vietnam War from the standpoint of those who were there. He wanted ...
BUEA, Cameroon — A woman cried out upon seeing a sheet-covered form on a stretcher. As volunteers wheeled it onto the stage, Boris Taleabong Alemnge recited a poem whose title spoke the unspoken: ...
On new poetry by Whitney Hanson, Terrance Hayes, Catherine Tufariello, Nicole Sealey & Ishion Hutchinson & Emily Wilson’s new translation of The Iliad. of clinging to the people and places that have ...
Ukraine paid homage to Ukrainian writers who died during the country’s war with Russia by referencing Taylor Swift’s newest album, “The Tortured Poets Department.” “The Tortured Poets Department ...
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