A wartime literary history uncovered — spelled with a ‘Double V’
I knew my father was a poet, but not that he had been a trailblazing Black columnist in the military during World War II.
The Anne Frank who lived
Esther Freud introduces an extract from the heartbreaking wartime diaries of Edith Velmans, born 100 years ago ...
Salish Current1d
Poetry, for a ‘churning, burning world’
“The churning, burning world needs poets,” Wharton said. “Poets express the human experience in lyrical words. Metaphor in ...
‘Poet in the New World’ Review: Czesław Miłosz Crosses Over
A survey of the Polish poet’s work in the late 1940s and early 1950s highlights Miłosz’s attempt to grapple with the ...
This Book on World War I Changed How I Think of Nonfiction
Paul Fussell’s 50-year-old survey of trench warfare deserves a new generation of readers, our book critic writes.
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Haverhill Citizens Hall of Fame to Induct Poet Frances Cole Lee
Frances Cole Lee, an accomplished poet who went to Haverhill High School and later wrote hundreds of poems and, takes her ...
The Forward8d
In the Italian city where James Joyce wrote ‘Ulysses’ a Jewish poet’s bookstore rises back to life
In the Italian city where James Joyce wrote 'Ulysses,' the bookstore that Jewish poet Umberto Saba opened in 1919 has come ...
19 Black Poets Whose Work Will Move and Inspire You
The words of these Black poets cut to the core of the human experience and the realities of being Black in America ...
The Bulwark8d
The Poetry of Bombs and Trenches and Mustard Gas
Sassoon and Owen capture in verse the sheer frightfulness of trench warfare; they are the supreme English war poets of their ...
The Modern Voice of War Writing
In All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque reinvented a genre.
Tragic Edinburgh war poet who died before being published to have works auctioned
James Alexander Mann, who was an aspiring writer and actor from Edinburgh, died just five days after his 21st birthday after being wounded in the Battle of Arras in 1917.