The Bulwark3d
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 ...
MILITARY MATTERS: Combat Soldier Publishes His Poetry About Mental Health In New Book “Unspoken Words”
Captain Kendra Curtice was his executive officer on Fort Moore. She says they helped each other, sharing about struggles and then poetry, leading her to get help too. “I feel like I’m getting better.
'Very moving': Archive of Scottish war poet who died in battle to go under the hammer
A unique archive capturing the experiences of a young Edinburgh soldier and gifted writer who fought during the First World ...
BBC24d
WW1: Has poetry distorted our view of the war?
At the time, he was just another soldier poet writing about the war. So why, after all these years, do we see Wilfred Owen’s poetry as a defining image of World War One? A select group of well ...
From Sudan to Sundance: A coup, a film and an unlikely family
After a military coup, Sudanese filmmakers and their subjects had to flee Khartoum and decide whether to continue the ...
The Union6d
Dennis McKenzie: Malakoff Diggings’ State Park Nevada Co. and how it got its name
When was it that Russia invaded Crimea and you said 2014, you would be right. Yet this is not the first Russian invasion into ...
Army officers had to write haikus about Pacific theater of World War II during a leadership course
Within the Context, Joint Force Capabilities, At Decisive Points” — just one of the haikus written by Army officers during ...
The Modern Voice of War Writing
In All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque reinvented a genre.
‘28 Years Later’ uses the same creepy poem the military uses to scare SERE students
The trailer for "28 Years Later" uses the same eerie Rudyard Kipling poem that's played during the military's survival and ...
Myra Sklarew, meditative poet and writing teacher, dies at 90
Myra Sklarew, a poet and teacher who found inspiration for her graceful, meditative verses in the natural world, her Jewish heritage and her early years working with rhesus monkeys at a research lab, ...