Veterans Day is next Thursday, November 11. The new "Folio Book Of War Poetry" is a collection of works by great poets that depict - as maybe only poetry can - the losses and valor that can be borne ...

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 ...

Here The Nation presents a few of the works posted on "Poets Against the War," (www.poetsagainstthewar.org), the website set up by Sam Hamill, poet and editor, when he called for poems and statements ...

AS PART of the interest in war poetry, Richard Eberhart and Selden Rodman have compiled a conscientious little anthology (200 pages) to represent “the continuity of the various reactions to war” of ...

This Dia de los Muertos, I had the pleasure of attending a poetry reading by U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limon, at Scripps College. Her opening comment really struck a chord with me. She said: “Poetry ...

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 ...

Today (11 November) marks Remembrance Day, also known as Armistice Day, which means a chance to stop and think about those ...

As the Great War approached, there was in Britain's salons and schools a kind of intoxication. Young men--poets, clerks, sons ...

Veterans Day is next Thursday, November 11. The new "Folio Book Of War Poetry" is a collection of works by great poets that depict - as maybe only poetry can - the losses and valor that can be borne ...