Since 1998, for 20 years during the week of Christmas, the Messenger Index has printed “A Soldiers Poem.” The poem was written by U.S. Marine Corps Lance Corporal James Schmidt in 1986. Written in the ...

Imagine it: a world away, Autumn. A&A Poetry Editor Lisa Russ Spaar notes: To ask what is the role of the poet in a time of war might be to ask what is the place of the poet in the world at all. Armed ...

Soldier Brian Turner is no silent witness to war. Instead, he used verse to chronicle his time in the U.S. Army, publishing a book of collected poems titled Here, Bullet. (Originally broadcast on July ...

in the arms of his brother. Eavan Boland’s poem “A Soldier in the 28th Massachusetts” is published in “Lines in Long Array: A Civil War Commemoration: Poems and Photographs, Past and Present.” In ...

Layli Long Soldier, an Oglala Lakota poet and author, shared work from her upcoming poetry collection along with several ...

A poem written by a Ukrainian soldier, who is fighting the Russian invasion, has been translated into about 10 languages in just one week, Ukraine’s Ministry of foreign affairs said on Thursday. The ...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, April 1 (UPI) -- As long as there has been war, soldiers far from home have penned lines poetic or poignant, or sometimes both. In World War I, for example, U.S. infantryman ...

For fifteen consecutive years, the soldier's poem has been published in the Messenger Index newspaper during the Christmas season. This poem has been circulated for years during the holidays and is a ...