A song written by a D-Day veteran who died earlier this year has been brought to life. Donald Rose was Britain's oldest man ...

Once, O Muse, the poetry of war was song and bravery and the gods. Then the poets of World War I bequeathed us an ironic mode. In his New Yorker assay into the conflict-torn literature of Iraq and ...

War, like love, has long inspired artists and musicians. That is especially true of the songs written in response to the Vietnam War during the countercultural movements of the 1960s and ’70s. The ...

This poem is the war on a very plain level. but this poem can’t barber its own hook clean. It twists in the shrapnel breeze of my credibility. It is made above all of words disarranged to resemble an ...

For the last year I have had the distinct honor of serving our state as the Poet Laureate of Wisconsin. Officially, my job is to “act as a statewide emissary” for my craft, an artform that many of the ...

War, as it turns out, is good for absolutely nothing when it comes to anti-war songs. At the risk of sounding like Bill O’Reilly (who, no doubt, listens only to Wagner), it’s time to protest the ...

The first day Vladimir Putin sent troops to invade Ukraine, actor AnnaLynne McCord thrust herself onto the internet stage by reciting a poem she had written addressed to the Russian President. With ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman John Fogerty performs in 2007 in Los Angeles. (Mark J. Terrill/AP) Editor’s note: April 30, 2025, marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the end of ...