Michael Korda writes a beautiful book in remembrance of the World War I poets whose work he loved. We hope you’re enjoying ...

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

When I came back from Iraq, I carried with me the images of landscapes littered with ruined bodies. To deal with the stew of ...

His poems are extraordinarily rich. However we should also widen the canvas and read alongside him war poems by other poets - male and female, combatant and civilian, and from beyond the UK and ...

Thanksgiving poems full of gratitude Thanksgiving often inspires us to get a little poetic. Thinking and speaking about the ...

And, if you really don’t like reading, poems are the perfect way to exercise your brain without having to read War and Peace. The post The best poetry books: You owe it to yourself to read these ...

Their peers in the English department generally read less contemporary poetry and more literary theory. In many departments writers and literary theorists are openly at war. Bringing the two ...

Chief among the insights we gain from reading history is that what we read is often relevant to what we are experiencing ...

You can read Minneapolis poet Danez Smith’s work in two new books or, if you happen to be in New York, on subway walls.

No one needs an excuse to read poetry. But, should you absolutely ... focuses on his upbringing in Vietnam and the Vietnam War, a war that happened before his birth. His second book, the novel ...

Music also serves other purposes important for morale: inspiring patriotism, paying respects to the dead, motivating troops ...