Students expressed themselves through poetry that advocated for peace in their communities, homes and schools. Their poetic expressions were made during the Veterans For Peace 12th annual public ...

Bombs are dropping across the world, yet here, in my garden, flowers bloom, birds sing, the grass grows luxuriant. Soldiers are shooting soldiers, people hide in bomb shelters, people are hungry. Here ...

While Springsteen sang about the Rising. Laguna Woods author and poet Charles Redner recently wrote this poem to honor the 22nd anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks and the thousands of lives lost.

The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation has announced the winners of the 2008 Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace Poetry Awards. Since 1995, the Santa Barbara-based foundation has made an annual series of awards to ...

Sixth-grade student Kobey Nishihira-Asuncion receives recognition for his grand prize award-winning poem in the 20th annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Peace Poetry Awards ceremony May 28 at the ...

Given the brutish activity of masked federal, armed immigration agents in many of our cities — their disregard for the rule ...

This Dia de los Muertos, I had the pleasure of attending a poetry reading by U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limon, at Scripps College. Her opening comment really struck a chord with me. She said: “Poetry ...

Like seven generations of men before him, Andrew Himes was expected to become a Baptist preacher. But that plan changed when he was in eighth grade and a race riot broke out in his school in rural ...

TOKYO — A mother's love and a yearning for peace flowed from Japanese Empress Masako's poem, read Friday at an annual celebration of poetry at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. The poem sings of how ...

Maui winners in the 2025 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Peace Poetry Competition gather for a photograph at the University of Hawaii-Maui Sunday. The students received a congratulatory certificate from ...

Homer wrote about the Trojan War; Alfred Lord Tennyson, the Crimean War; Walt Whitman, the Civil War; Wilfred Owen, World War I. Their poems are part of world history and culture. Poets should and ...