SSgt. Acey introduces Elizabeth Alexander’s Praise Song for the Day, written for Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration. The poem honors history, resilience, and unity, urging us to appreciate our ancestors ...

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Or triumphant. The poem’s most poignant feature may be the soldier’s optimism, his faith in what comes after hell. He insists ...

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Poems can promote understanding by taking us behind enemy lines. Threatening to boycott anyone's art or literature will only ...

Christian Picciolini, a former leader of the American white-supremacist skinhead movement, explores how so many young people ...

It is a work of sensual lyric poetry that portrays scenes of actual and imagined trysts between the poem’s female protagonist and her lover. Graphic descriptions of both male and female bodies pervade ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday took a jibe at Leader of Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge in Rajya Sabha, and said the poem that he recited to criticise the BJP government was written ...

the only U.S. Patriot missile battalion based in Europe, deployed to Rzeszow-Jasionka Airport in southeastern Poland shortly after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in early 2022.

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Sappho (the poetess) and Alcaeus. What are the top poems inspired by ancient Greece? Credit: Wikimedia Commons / Walters Museum Poetry stands as one of humanity’s oldest art ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Army Capt. Rebecca M. Lobach, of Durham, N.C., is pictured during the Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony ...