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The carnage in Turkey and Syria has led to a blossoming of poetry – with women at the forefront. Here, two of them tell their stories.   Two female poets, part of an emergent school of verse, much of it written by women: Bejan Matur and Maram al-Masri – Kurdish and Syrian respectively. Matur and Masri are the two most illustrious and cogent of this new generation of female poets; their verse combines to create a devastating but richly composed verbal landscape that it is at once epic and intensely human. Raw and lyrical, of the moment but seeped in the memories of their people, immediate and for ever.

Source: Voices above the chaos: female war poets from the Middle East | Books | The Guardian

The carnage in Turkey and Syria has led to a blossoming of poetry – with women at the forefront. Here, two of them tell their stories

Source: Voices above the chaos: female war poets from the Middle East | Books | The Guardian

Writing poems after returning from war helped him deal with post-traumatic stress disorder. Doctors treating his PTSD told him he had Alzheimer’s in 2010.

Source: Vietnam veteran writes poetry while battling PTSD, Alzheimer’s | KING5.com

Before the sun comes up each day, Harold Mohn has already written two or three poems.

Source: Harold Mohn, World War II vet, poet turns 100

Source: Poetry by Solmaz Sharif and Tess Taylor – San Francisco Chronicle

As she writes her experience of exile and immigration, she mourns the lost and the grieving, among them her uncle killed as a young soldier during the Iran-Iraq war, pieced together through fragments and photographs in the book’s haunting sequence, “Personal Effects.”

War, Poetry, and the beautiful contradiction. Read a long form on Siyar Bahadurzada and his Afghan legacy.

In today’s Afghanistan, a number of the nation’s most revered historical figures are poets. Many of those figures were warriors as well.

Source: War and Poetry: Siyar Bahadurzada’s Afghan legacy – Bloody Elbow

War porn, n. Videos, images, and narratives featuring graphic violence, often brought back from combat zones, viewed voyeuristically or for emotional gratification. Such media are often presented a…

Source: 9 Classics of Literary War Porn | Literary Hub

Aged 22 in the trenches, Dennis had scribbled verse in his official Field Service Pocket Book about the horrors of war and the shrapnel injury to his arm that later saw him sent homesome.   69 years later, his words were finally printed after a researcher at Goldsmiths College, University of London, discovered his work, describing him as ‘the Wilfred Owen of World War II’.

Source: WWII hero Dennis Wilson spent £4,876 on life cover that’ll pay out £1,757 | This is Money

Poems about the first world war have defined the genre for decades. It is time to hear from new voices that reflect a wider view of conflicts

Source: There is more to war poetry than mud, wire and slaughter | Books | The Guardian

Vietnam War veteran Bill McCloud visited Dick Conner Correctional Center in Hominy to read poems about his experiences to men who are in the facility’s veterans club. The poems were inspired by letters McCloud wrote to his mother while in Vietnam.

Source: War bonding: Author shares Vietnam War poetry with inmates