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 ...
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 ...
The hell where youth and laughter go. A decorated veteran of the Western Front before he turned conscientious objector, Sassoon knew of what he spoke. Sprinkling passages of his poetry over somber ...
“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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Today (11 November) marks Remembrance Day, also known as Armistice Day, which means a chance to stop and think about those ...
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 ...
A GREAT American poet! I had at last found him. It mattered not that I was an obscure student in a famous graduate school; it mattered not that great poets in their day had bowed down to Denham and to ...
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