For as long as war has carried on, men have written poetry about it. The world war narrative has boasted the work of such greats as Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Walt Whitman, Isaac Rosenberg, and Joyce ...

The comics anthology %27Above the Dreamless Dead%27 adapts World War I trench poetry Book features those who%27ve explored the period such as Pat Mills and Garth Ennis This year marks the 100th ...

The First World War saw an outburst of poetic creativity unmatched in European history. Fueled by bitter anger at a war that destroyed the comfortable world of Victorian prosperity and complacency, ...

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 ...

So begins The Iliad, one of the first recorded poems in Western literature. Not coincidentally, The Iliad is a war poem, probing the human race’s inability to overcome its rage and lust for conquest.

The most popular English poem of the First World War was “In Flanders Fields,” written by John McCrae after fighting in the second Battle of Ypres in 1915. The poem ventriloquizes the British dead and ...

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 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, ...

Our observance of National Poetry Month concludes this week with poems from two armed conflicts. Linda Hughes of Texas Christian University reads Alfred Lord Tennyson's "The Charge of the Light ...