A talented Year 8 pupil has delivered a moving performance of Jessie Pope’s “Who’s for the Game?” as part of her LAMDA ...

War is a writer’s medium. Even in the age of instant imaging, the lasting expressions of war are those expressed by soldiers who have lived the experience. One of them is Bill Glose, ...

War often reduces entire cultures and countries to one over-simplified narrative, particularly in the domain of news. Ukraine was first invaded by Russia in 2014, and then again in 2022, and that ...

Two women have saved a war poet's work from being lost - twice over and more than 100 years apart. Only 24, Nowell Oxland died in World War One in 1915, nine days before one of his poems, about his ...

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Why there’s a course on war poetry at West Point. So speaks General William Lennox in his interview for the recent documentary film Voices in Wartime (at www.voicesinwartime.org). General Lennox is ...

On August 14th 2023 Moscow was a city on edge. Ukrainian drones were flying into its buildings. Yevgeny Prigozhin, the warlord who had marched a mutinous army towards the capital a few weeks ...

Evalyn Katz Shapiro, who edited and promoted her fiancée's haunting wartime poetry, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1945, died of a heart attack Nov. 18 at Inova Alexandria Hospital. Mrs. Shapiro, a ...

Guest columnist Gianna Somrak, native to Highland Heights, was a psychology and creative writing double major who graduated from Baldwin Wallace University this past December. After considering her ...