I knew my father was a poet, but not that he had been a trailblazing Black columnist in the military during World War II.

Esther Freud introduces an extract from the heartbreaking wartime diaries of Edith Velmans, born 100 years ago ...

“The churning, burning world needs poets,” Wharton said. “Poets express the human experience in lyrical words. Metaphor in ...

A survey of the Polish poet’s work in the late 1940s and early 1950s highlights Miłosz’s attempt to grapple with the ...

Paul Fussell’s 50-year-old survey of trench warfare deserves a new generation of readers, our book critic writes.

Frances Cole Lee, an accomplished poet who went to Haverhill High School and later wrote hundreds of poems and, takes her ...