War, love and memory intertwine in Voices Israel’s 2025 anthology, a powerful collection of global poetry shaped by Oct. 7 ...

“In the particular is the universal,” said James Joyce. In Forest of Noise, the particular is the Israel-Hamas war and the suffering of the Gazans, as recorded by the award-winning poet Mosab Abu Toha ...

War often reduces entire cultures and countries to one over-simplified narrative, particularly in the domain of news. Ukraine was first invaded by Russia in 2014, and then again in 2022, and that ...

Homer wrote about the Trojan War; Alfred Lord Tennyson, the Crimean War; Walt Whitman, the Civil War; Wilfred Owen, World War I. Their poems are part of world history and culture. Poets should and ...

We can be overwhelmed by reports filed from conflict zones. While they give a comprehensive account of a situation on the ground, sometimes the language fails. Which is where poetry comes in. One ...

Tumultuous times create heightened, often complex, emotions. It can be hard to voice or even identify our feelings when faced ...

There is something about war – the violence, the worry, the loss, the fear, the love, the grief, the hopeful prayers – that summons poetry from deep within the soul. There is something about our war, ...

Dan Shannon of Anderson Township has created a national contest to find the best poem about America. Poet Thomas Buchanan Read wrote the famous Civil War poem “Sheridan’s Ride” in Cincinnati, first ...

Revolutionary War -- Paul Revere's Ride / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Yankee Doodle / Anonymous -- To His Excellency General Washington / Phillis Wheatley -- Warren's Address to the American ...