Ukrainian soldier-poets are springing up all along the front lines of their war against Russia, feeding a literary ...

As wars sow pain and loss around the world, poet Walt Whitman's devotion to the wounded during the U.S. Civil War should inspire acts of compassion today.

A new translation of "The Iliad" pairs well with Ukranian war poetry and a documentary on its suffering people.

Walt Whitman is considered one of the greatest poets in American history. Born the second of nine children in straitened circumstances in New York in 1819, he left school at age 11 to help support his ...