Wars find their poets. When the Greeks clashed with the Trojans, poets would take it all in, striving to capture the whole of it. The dead bodies, the gnashing fear. Here is Virgil describing a battle ...

Artyom Kamardin, a Russian poet, has been sentenced to 7 years in prison for reciting verses against Russia's war in Ukraine. The Tverskoi District Court in Moscow convicted Kamardin on charges of ...

Before her harrowing footage of life in Mariupol under siege from Russian invaders was viewed around the world in 2022, Yuliia Paievska — call sign "Taira" — was already well known to Ukrainians for ...

Harvey Shapiro, a poet and World War II veteran, discusses the works included in Poets of World War II, an anthology that he has edited for the Library of America’s American Poets Project. The ...

Nation marks anniversary of start of Civil War. April 12, 2011 -- Walt Whitman, one of America's most revered authors and poets, is best known for his "Leaves of Grass" collection but the National ...

A Russian poet was given a seven-year prison sentence Thursday for reciting verses against Russia’s war in Ukraine, a tough punishment that comes during a relentless Kremlin crackdown on dissent.

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 ...

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 ...

Palestinian poet, teacher and writer Mosab Abu Toha was born in a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. That’s where many of the pieces in his new collection, "Forest of Noise," were written, tapped out on ...

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 ...