Justin Eggen is a U.S. Marine Corps combat veteran, poet and graduate student at Florida Atlantic University. Thinking about his time in the war makes it hard for Justin Eggen to sleep. So he writes ...
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, ...
We can be overwhelmed by reports filed from conflict zones. While they give a comprehensive account of a situation on the ground, sometimes the language fails. Which is where poetry comes in. One ...
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 ...
Selected and Edited by RICHARD GRANT WHITE. New York: The American News Company. WE confess that our heart had at times misgiven us concerning the written and printed poetry of our recent war ; but ...
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 ...
Homer wrote about the Trojan War; Alfred Lord Tennyson, the Crimean War; Walt Whitman, the Civil War; Wilfred Owen, World War I. Their poems are part of world history and culture. Poets should and ...
If you search hard for work by Walter James Miller, you’ll probably find his annotated edition of Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea before you find his book of poems, Making an Angel ...
Compiled by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. First and Second Series: 1917 and 1919. Two vols., 12mo, xxx + 280, and xxxvii + 387 pp. Each vol., $1.50 cloth, $2.25 ...
From Elon Musk to Jordan Peterson, a certain strand of conservatism has recruited the poetry of Homer and Dante in their culture war. Juan de la Corte’s The Fire of Troy, found in the collection of ...
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War poetry conference to take place in Dorchester
Dorchester is to host a War Poetry Weekend honouring voices from times of conflict. The event, entitled 'A Weekend to Remember', will be taking place across two venues - the Dorford Centre, St Mary's ...
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