These days, Alissa Quart’s attention has broken into strange shapes. But she has found a reprieve in one thing: poetry.

That’s why I return, for instance ... poets associated with World War II and the Civil War periods respectively, whose poetry nevertheless retained a notable hopefulness Whitman’s “Chants ...

But can poetry ameliorate a war or hasten a peaceful resolution ... or even the bonfires that consumed “decadent” books in Nazi Germany. Why are the blacklisters afraid to step behind enemy ...

Here is the latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds Poetry Group. Pardon my French! A now-dead former ...

Homer wrote about the Trojan War; Alfred Lord Tennyson, the Crimean War; Walt Whitman, the Civil War; Wilfred Owen, World War ...

Last November, we received the news that İlhan Sami Çomak had finally been granted his freedom—a moment that took many of us ...

Jean Stimmell is a retired stone mason and psychotherapist living in Northwood. He blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com and ...

Why are these preparations necessary ... of Black soldiers fighting in World War II. In their blend of bravado and vulnerability, these poems capture the anxieties and aspirations of men facing ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. On April 30, 1975 ... The mediums include visual art, poetry, video art, zines and music. The works offer counter-narratives of what ...

where Aeneas tells Queen Dido his war stories, and where Dido, against her best instincts, falls in love with him. But there's a problem: "pius" Aeneas, as he's called in the poem (meaning dutiful ...