Now, a current soldier is putting deep thoughts about that “internal war” in a book of poems he wrote. We talked to the author and mental health advocate. “It’s war, so you’re gonna ...

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 ...

In her poem “38,” Layli Long Soldier notes, “‘Real’ poems do not ‘really’ require words.” But her worded poems are no less real for the writing of them; Long Soldier’s words are a knife, a needle, a ...

It was a very trying experience. To help him cope, James wrote a short poem and kept it in his wallet. It is called Sit On The Lid and Laugh. After the war McQuire settled in Toronto and worked as an ...

The poem is about the endless marching the British infantry did while colonizing parts of Africa. Soldiers would march for weeks with no known destination and would frequently "go mad" watching ...

The poem is about the endless marching the British infantry did while colonizing parts of Africa. Soldiers would march for weeks with no known destination and did nothing but "go mad" watching the ...