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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hiding in a foxhole in Italy during World War II, Vincent Novaco wrote a poem. It was called "A Soldier's Prayer." "The bullets whistled overhead. The bombs did scream in rage. A brave young lad lay ...

Christine Lysnewycz Holbert is the director of Lost Horse Press, an independent nonprofit poetry press based in Washington State, and the daughter of Ukrainian refugees who came to the U.S. after WWII ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lindsey Hilsum is an award-winning correspondent with Britain’s Channel 4 News who has contributed to the News Hour with reports from Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and more. Her new book, "I ...

Solmaz Sharif says she has always been obsessed with state-sponsored language. But it wasn’t until 10 years ago when she stumbled onto a Defense Department dictionary that she began to write what ...