Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Jim Akin carried an estimated 10,000 paratroopers as a pilot, and when he skydived at 99 years old ...

In 1921, the Royal British Legion in the UK began selling poppies to raise funds for veterans and their families. This ...

I’ve researched the rare moments of intimacy during war, when enemies see the humanity in each other and forge unlikely friendships.

The award recognized a writing career that ultimately included more than two dozen books, as well as poetry chapbooks ... while his Russian-born father, whose first language was Yiddish, was ...

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In Russia, no poet need starve if he can hack out odes extolling "socially useful" goals. In revolt against sloganeering paeans that read like Pravda set to rhyme, hundreds of ...

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Doug Emhoff's mother and father posted a video to social media that included a cringe-worthy poem they composed for daughter-in-law Kamala Harris' 60th birthday. Michael Emhoff and Barbara ...

and Sundown Records will host a Poetry SLAM at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 21, at Fozzie's Smokin Bar-B-Q, 114 Third St. NW. "A poetry slam is a competitive art event in which poets perform spoken word ...

A Russian major has been killed in a car bomb explosion, Ukrainian military intelligence officials said on Saturday. The Defense Intelligence of Ukraine said in a Telegram post that on Friday "a ...

I Am Maria: My Poems and Reflections on Heartbreak, Healing, and Hope' will hit bookshelves on April 1, 2025 Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...