Maksym Kryvtsov, a Ukrainian poet and soldier, won acclaim for his writing about the horrors on the front line A Ukrainian soldier who had been hailed as one of the country’s emerging war poets has ...

Two women have saved a war poet's work from being lost - twice over and more than 100 years apart. Only 24, Nowell Oxland ...

Arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown reports on an unusual exhibition in Great Britain that looks back at the poetry written by soldiers in World War I. "My subject is war and the pity of war. The poetry ...

Wars find their poets. When the Greeks clashed with the Trojans, poets would take it all in, striving to capture the whole of it. The dead bodies, the gnashing fear. Here is Virgil describing a battle ...

Before her harrowing footage of life in Mariupol under siege from Russian invaders was viewed around the world in 2022, Yuliia Paievska — call sign "Taira" — was already well known to Ukrainians for ...

Artyom Kamardin, a Russian poet, has been sentenced to 7 years in prison for reciting verses against Russia's war in Ukraine. The Tverskoi District Court in Moscow convicted Kamardin on charges of ...

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 ...

The hell where youth and laughter go. A decorated veteran of the Western Front before he turned conscientious objector, Sassoon knew of what he spoke. Sprinkling passages of his poetry over somber ...

Nation marks anniversary of start of Civil War. April 12, 2011 -- Walt Whitman, one of America's most revered authors and poets, is best known for his "Leaves of Grass" collection but the National ...

Palestinian poet, teacher and writer Mosab Abu Toha was born in a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. That’s where many of the pieces in his new collection, "Forest of Noise," were written, tapped out on ...

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 ...

IN A comprehensive anthology of more than 400 pages, Mr. Williams has tried to include all the best poems written about war in the present century. He includes Hardy and Yeats, eight poets of the last ...