Oglala Lakota poet Layli Long Soldier read her poem “135 Xs” and led a craft talk as part of the Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Series, criticizing the oppression of Indigenous populations.

Santa Filomena ,” which he wrote for The Atlantic ’s inaugural issue, in November 1857, attests to his lifelong belief in the ...

A quarter of poems published during World War One were by women compared to a fifth written by soldiers. Their poetry reveals how women participated during the war - working and debating ...

Or triumphant. The poem’s most poignant feature may be the soldier’s optimism, his faith in what comes after hell. He insists on the necessity of that faith, perhaps as a way of reassuring ...

Although Sassoon's poem, The Dug Out is justly famous, this poem about my grandfather's own experience, My Dug-Out, also paints a vivid picture of the misery of life in the trenches. In his war ...