In the fall of 1918, Ruth Weir, a nurse from Faribault, was assigned to a British hospital in Rouen, France, where many men were dying of pneumonia, influenza, gas attacks and wounds. Weir and her ...

The BBC has today released a Google Cardboard VR app which commemorates soldiers that fell in the 1st World War by celebrating one of the most famous poems from that era. Today is Armistice day, ...

The Ukrainian American poet Ilya Kaminsky was born in Odesa in 1977, when it was still part of the Soviet Union. His family emigrated to the United States in 1993, when he was 16, the age at which I ...

“Darling, I Love You” by Daniel Ladinsky (Penguin) is the perfect read for those seeking respite from the seemingly endless stream of unsettling events in the news these days. Ladinsky, well-known for ...

For as long as war has carried on, men have written poetry about it. The world war narrative has boasted the work of such greats as Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Walt Whitman, Isaac Rosenberg, and Joyce ...

With major wars raging in Europe and the Middle East and with the U.S. Veterans Day upon us, perhaps it is time to re-engage with the magnum opus of war poetry, Homer's "The Iliad." A new translation ...

Veterans Day — originally Armistice Day — was renamed in 1954 to include veterans who had fought in all wars. But the day of remembrance has its roots in World War I — Nov. 11, 1918 was the day the ...

San Diego author, all Rihanna bar was born in Shiraz, Iran, and grew up during the throes of the Iran, Iraq war. She moved to the United States at the age of 14. She has dedicated her life to refugees ...