The Ohio State University Urban Arts Space and Rare Books and Manuscripts Library will host Poets Against War, a two day poetry reading beginning Wednesday, Oct. 29 at 1 p.m., featuring both local and ...

Odesa is to Ukraine as New York City is to the United States: a port city, a center of commerce and a place where languages, cultures and traditions collide, then meld into an instantly recognizable ...

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 ...

When award-winning poet Brian Turner served in the Army, he was following a long family tradition. His new memoir traces that history — and... A Poet Parses The Legacy Of War In 'My Life As A Foreign ...

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 ...

“Benediction,” Terence Davies’ achingly beautiful portrait of the English war poet and soldier Siegfried Sassoon, is a movie of acute sadness and intense pleasure. The pleasure and the sadness are ...

One of the reasons we’re able to understand, with such vivid knowledge, what life was like during WW1 is thanks to some great poetry. But what many who grew up reading Britain's First World War poets ...

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 ...

Maya Angelou, considered one of the best poets in history, signs copies of "Maya Angelou: Letter to My Daughter" at Barnes & Noble in Union Square on October 30, 2008 in New York City. Poetry is a ...

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