Category Archives: War and Poetry

War Poet Heads To Prison For Literary Crime

My step-daughter called me today to wish me a Happy Veterans Day. Unfortunately, I was asleep when she called so I didn’t get the chance to give her the proper honor. I didn’t even know it was Veterans Day. You see, I don’t keep track of such things. Birthdays, my wife tells me. Anniversaries? Other…

Poetry, Like War, Can Be Unjust

(Source) When you have held up a small cardboard alphabet card for a writer who is completely non-speaking and non-moving (except for the eyes), and pointed first to the A, then the B, then C, then D, until you get to the first letter of the first word of the first line of the poem…