Illinois Poet Laureate Angela Jackson shares a poem she wrote sparked by a childhood memory — but she didn't let reality get in the way of meaning.

Memorial Day, is to recognize people who died while serving in the Armed Forces. A U.S. Marine Corps veteran during the Vietnam War, Gary Van Eyll said he has a duty to appreciate ...

Sassoon and Owen capture in verse the sheer frightfulness of trench warfare; they are the supreme English war poets of their ...

PTSD and suicide continue to be major issues for service members and veterans. Now, a current soldier is putting deep ...

Following Johnny Cash's passing in 2003, Bob Dylan wrote a eulogy for the Man in Black titled, "Remembering Johnny." ...

The James Beard Foundation today announced its semifinalist nominees for 2025, officially kicking off restaurant awards season across the country. Widely known as the “Oscars” of the food world, the ...

Addressing the congregation, including Commandant Claire Mortimer, Aide De Camp representing Taoiseach Simon Harris, they began by reading a beautiful poem penned by Paul Sutton entitled ‘Ode to ...

WASHINGTON — US Park Police have found a second body in the Potomac under the Arlington Memorial Bridge, after a pickup truck drove into the water during a deadly crash. Rescue divers had ...

Holocaust survivor and campaigner Tomi Reichental has confirmed he will attend this year's National Holocaust Memorial Day after criticism from Irish Jewish groups that President Michael D Higgins ...

Prince William will lead the nation in commemorations for Holocaust Memorial Day. The Prince of Wales is set to do a reading at a special service a special event in London attended by survivors ...

By Karl Kirchwey Karl Kirchwey’s eighth book of poems, “Good Apothecary,” will be published this year. He teaches in the M.F.A. program in creative writing at Boston University, where he ...

She promised her father that, if he composed the memorial poem, she would carve the words on a rune-stick. Egill opens his poem with an image of struggling to lift up “poem-beams” in order to “drag” ...