Biography of 18th century poet Phillis Wheatley is winner of George Washington Prize
The author of a new biography of poet Phillis Wheatley has received a $50,000 history award. David Waldstreicher’s “The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet’s Journey Through American Slavery and ...
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In ‘I Brought the War with Me,’ Lindsey Hilsum shares poetry inspired by the front lines
Lindsey Hilsum is an award-winning correspondent with Britain’s Channel 4 News who has contributed to the News Hour with ...
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The war poet and the attractions of Milnathort
Owen is regarded as the greatest poet of World War One. His works about the horrors of trench and gas warfare are still taught in schools today. He was born in Shropshire in 1893 and was beginning ...
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Turning to a poet for hope in another time of war [column]
A yahrzeit is the anniversary of a death. Jews tend to remember these things. We light special candles in honor of our dead ...
Ukrainian Poet and Rock Star Fights Near Front and Performs Behind It
Serhiy Zhadan, 50, is a beloved Ukrainian poet as well as a novelist, lyricist and rock star. Furious over the invasion, he ...
The poet who commands a rebel army
The commander, Maung Saungkha, has raised an army of 1,000 soldiers. But his background is not military. Instead, he is a ...
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Award-winning Ukrainian war poet killed in action
Last year he was one of the authors selected for Between Sirens, an anthology of war poems published in 2023, and Book love 2.0 Love and War. Poems from the Loophole was published the same year ...
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Scots war poet's work to mark end of WW1
Charles Hamilton Sorley was killed at the Battle of Loos in 1915 Five poems by war poet Charles Hamilton Sorley are being set to music by leading composer Sir James MacMillan to commemorate the ...
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WW1: Has poetry distorted our view of the war?
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 ...
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Milwaukee Chamber Theatre’s ‘The Iliad’ Is a Modern Take on an Ancient Tragedy
Milwaukee Chamber Theatre’s ‘The Iliad” runs through October 6 at the Milwaukee Youth Arts Center. Read our review here.
Late poet John Burnside and Ukraine war reporter Jen Stout in running for Scotland's 'book of the year' prize
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