The War Poems are a daily witnessing of the pain and suffering of two nations. After waking to the news of the Israeli massacre by Hamas on October 7th, I had great difficulty expressing my pain, ...
It's not often (if ever) a recipient of the Medal of Honor is also a published poet. But retired Green Beret John Duffy turned his trial-by-fire into an epic poem of the Vietnam War. It was a brutal ...
Among them was Glenna Manchego, known by her call sign BabyDoc. At twenty-five, she has already lived a life that few novels ...
The first day Vladimir Putin sent troops to invade Ukraine, actor AnnaLynne McCord thrust herself onto the internet stage by reciting a poem she had written addressed to the Russian President. With ...
Hollie McNish talks about her new poetry collection, Virgin, which explores the damaging power of this word and asks for a broader understanding of its possibilities. Her readings on today's programme ...
The American poet Alfred Nicol (b. 1956) is the author of such collections as “Animal Psalms” and “Elegy for Everyone,” and one of the nation’s best translators. In 2022 he published “100 Visions of ...
The Kootenai County man wanted to tell the stories of the Vietnam War from the standpoint of those who were there. He wanted ...
Luka Poljak has made the 2025 CBC Poetry Prize longlist for 2000: 5 Years after the War, my Father Buys a Vinyl Record. My ...
Sara Teasdale (1884–1933), an American lyric poet, was the author of nine volumes of poetry published between 1907 and the year of her death. Though her poems frequently appear in anthologies for ...