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 ...
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How Ukrainian writers are processing war through poetry
Yuliya Musakovska, a poet based in Lviv, Ukraine, said that after Russia’s full-scale invasion of her country, her poetic style changed. For example, she said, she uses a metaphor of stones and nails ...
A poet's writings on the war in Iraq cost him a chance to become the first poet laureate of Nassau County — one of the wealthiest counties in the nation — after lawmakers denounced his work as an ...
The Bourne Chair in Poetry at Georgia Tech, Kaminsky's poem, “We Lived Happily During the War,” went viral after Russia invaded Ukraine earlier this year. The Odessa-born poet talks about his loved ...
Justin Eggen is a U.S. Marine Corps combat veteran, poet and graduate student at Florida Atlantic University. Thinking about his time in the war makes it hard for Justin Eggen to sleep. So he writes ...
Weeks before he was killed by an Israeli airstrike, Palestinian poet Refaat Alareer shared his 2011 poem If I Must Die. “If I must die/you must live/to tell my story,” the poem reads. The persona then ...
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 ...
Joseph Pearce’s Death Comes for the War Poets will begin its run June 9 at the Sheen Center in New York. Play poster, focused on World War I soldier image (photo: Courtesy of Blackfriars Repertory ...
Radovan Karadzic has been captured. To anyone who cares about Bosnia, war crimes, and impunity, this is thrilling, almost impossible news. Thirteen years after the siege of Sarajevo and the massacre ...
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 ...
Lowell Knobloch interviewed Mitchell resident William Thompson as part of his mission to preserve veterans’ stories ...
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