A yahrzeit is the anniversary of a death. Jews tend to remember these things. We light special candles in honor of our dead ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login Situating First World War poetry in a truly global context, this book reaches beyond the British soldier-poet canon. A History of World War ...

Owen is considered one of the greatest war poets, thanks in part to his moving poem Dulce et Decorum Est. The poem describes a gas attack in the trenches and pulsates with a sense of horror and ...

Her new book, "I Brought the War with Me," marries her life as a war correspondent with poetry. Special correspondent Malcolm Brabant discussed more with Hilsum for our arts and culture series ...

These rankings are based on the mass appeal of their poetry, impact on society and craft ... Achilles and Agamemnon at the end of the Trojan War, and The Odyssey, about Odysseus’s return ...

Meath man Francis Ledwidge brought his words to war in a way ... became a published poet in his early teens. He had the support and backing of Lord Dunsany, a well-known society and literary ...

They wanted to describe the war so that people at home could understand how it felt. They also wanted to make sure people never forgot. Laurence Binyon was an English poet. In 1914, he wrote 'For ...

Freedom Letters has published the poetry book “How are we meant to survive this”. This is a collection of texts by 26 authors written after Russian army invaded Ukraine. Listen to an interview ...

A court in the Russian city of Tomsk on September 9 sentenced the former governor of the Siberian Tomsk region, Dmitry Gurdin, to four years in prison on embezzlement charges. The Soviet district ...

Thousands of years ago, humankind figured out how to transform one of our greatest inventions into infinite beauty, and language gave way to poetry ... depth. In “War,” Leslie Coulson writes ...

He sees poetry as a platform to connect people emotionally and mentally with the war in Gaza. “I think it is important that people get to see what Arabic sounds like,” he said, explaining why ...