In honor of National Poetry Month, Slate asked a handful of writers and editors to name a poem they turned to in a time of war. By the time we had gathered their responses, the second Gulf War was ...

Two women have saved a war poet's work from being lost - twice over and more than 100 years apart. Only 24, Nowell Oxland ...

THE one favor the Germans have done for us is to rub the glamour from war. They spoil everything they touch, and they seem to have spoiled even their own favorite outdoor sport; it is probable that ...

The American poet Alfred Nicol (b. 1956) is the author of such collections as “Animal Psalms” and “Elegy for Everyone,” and one of the nation’s best translators. In 2022 he published “100 Visions of ...

The War Poems are a daily witnessing of the pain and suffering of two nations. After waking to the news of the Israeli massacre by Hamas on October 7th, I had great difficulty expressing my pain, ...

WERE Michael Longley from any other country but Ireland, he’d be long considered a great poet. He’s fully formed and has a rich body of work, but almost no one has heard of him in America. With ...

THIS is a very moving and interesting collection of verse by a number of young English poets. It is revealing to find from this, and other collections, how many of the young people who are fighting ...

Sara Teasdale (1884–1933), an American lyric poet, was the author of nine volumes of poetry published between 1907 and the year of her death. Though her poems frequently appear in anthologies for ...