It is easy to assume that the powerful words of this young man from Shropshire captured the true experience of the war. But is that assumption right? Or has our focus on poems like Owen's ...
The "Six-Word War" project is the first crowdsourced war memoir collecting experiences from veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. In 6-word poems, veterans describe the complexities of ...
World War I. Their poems are part of world history and culture. Poets should and must document the destruction and horrors of war. But can poetry ameliorate a war or hasten a peaceful resolution?
More than 135 of these poems have been recorded. The Angel Island Immigration Station was in operation from 1910 to 1940. During World War II, the site was used to hold prisoners of war and as a ...
Yuliya Musakovska, a poet based in Lviv, Ukraine, said that after Russia’s full-scale invasion of her country, her poetic style changed. For example, she said, she uses a metaphor of stones and ...
no poem long enough to say the solidarity we, Black American people, feel ancestrally for our brothers and sisters in Palestine. People attend the "emergency protest" organized by an anti-war and ...
6. Wilfred Owen's Anthem for Doomed Youth, read by Sir Ian McKellen Some of the most powerful poetry ever written was in response to the horrors of the First World War, by the likes of Wilfred ...
World War I. Their poems are part of world history and culture. Poets should and must document the destruction and horrors of war. But can poetry ameliorate a war or hasten a peaceful resolution?