War Poetry

• • 100 Years of Poetry: The Magazine and War

  Abigail Deutsch
  

  A historical look at the role of poetry in wartime.

• • American Service 

  Paisley Rekdal
  

  Veterans Day and a citizenship based on hope.

• • A “Poetry-Fueled War”

  Ruth Graham
  

  During the Civil War, poetry didn’t just respond to events; it shaped them.

• • Craft Vs. Conscience

  Ange Mlinko
  

  How the Vietnam War destroyed the friendship between Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov.

• • Poetry, Wartime, and Unwieldy Metaphors

  Cliff Doerksen
  

  Poets participate in a panel on war and peace poems.

• • War Stories

  Evan Smith Rakoff
  

  Veteran Kevin Powers’s celebrated novel The Yellow Birds has its origins in his poetry.

• • “Are We All Monsters?”

  Jacob Silverman
  

  Philip Schultz’s The Wherewithal grapples with the Holocaust, poverty, Vietnam, and then some.

• • Poems, Bombs, and the Road to Baghdad

  Matthew Doherty
  
• • Everyone Is an Immigrant

  Eliza Griswold
  
• • Sarajevo Blues

  Aleksandar Hemon
  
• • Romance and Reality

  Lt. Gen. William James Lennox Jr.
  
• • Like Soldiers Marching

  Rachel Cohen
  
• • How With This Rage

  Chris Hedges
  
• • When Yellow Ribbons and Flag-Waving Aren't Enough

  Nathaniel Fick
  

• • We Lived Happily During the War

  Ilya Kaminsky
  
• • Vietnam Epic Treatment

  Donald Revell
  
• • Poem (I lived in the first century of world wars)

  Muriel Rukeyser
  
• • The Hurt Locker

  Brian Turner
  
• • The End and the Beginning

  Wisława Szymborska
  
• • from  Don't Let Me Be Lonely: “I don't usually talk to strangers...”

  Claudia Rankine
  
• • Casualty

  Seamus Heaney
  
• • Camouflaging the Chimera

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  
• • To Our Land

  Mahmoud Darwish
  
• • Ode for the American Dead in Asia

  Thomas McGrath
  
• • Gettysburg: July 1, 1863

  Jane Kenyon
  
• • Wildpeace

  Yehuda Amichai
  
• • The Conscientious Objector

  Karl Shapiro
  
• • The Grand Army of the Republic

  John Spaulding
  
• • By the Well of Living and Seeing, Part II, Section 28: “During the Second World War”

  Charles Reznikoff
  
• • “After Experience Taught Me ...”

  W. D. Snodgrass
  
• • At the Bomb Testing Site

  William E. Stafford
  
• • Healing Gila

  Lawson Fusao Inada
  
• • The Lost Pilot

  James Tate
  
• • Apparition of the Exile

  Bruce Weigl
  
• • Making Peace

  Denise Levertov
  
• • Ode to a Drone

  Amit Majmudar
  
• • High Noon at Los Alamos

  Eleanor Wilner
  

• • On being asked for a War Poem

  William Butler Yeats
  
• • Insensibility

  Wilfred Owen
  
• • Love among the Ruins

  Robert Browning
  
• • Concord Hymn

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  
• • Battle-Hymn of the Republic

  Julia Ward Howe
  
• • Long, too long America

  Walt Whitman
  
• • Armistice

  Sophie Jewett
  
• • Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight

  Vachel Lindsay
  
• • September, 1918

  Amy Lowell
  
• • If We Must Die

  Claude McKay
  
• • I Have a Rendezvous with Death

  Alan Seeger
  
• • Anthem for Doomed Youth

  Wilfred Owen
  
• • Arms and the Boy

  Wilfred Owen
  
• • Strange Meeting

  Wilfred Owen
  
• • Easter, 1916

  William Butler Yeats
  
• • Grass

  Carl Sandburg
  
• • Dreamers

  Siegfried Sassoon
  
• • The Charge of the Light Brigade

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson
  
• • Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field one Night

  Walt Whitman
  
• • The French Revolution as It Appeared to Enthusiasts at Its Commencement

  William Wordsworth