Acolytes of war is one word, .com, and you will find a page there called Time Now: The Iraq & Afghanistan Wars in Art, Film, and Literature. They have a page devoted to 22 American, Iraq, and Afghanistan war poets and there's an extraordinary range of contemporary poets, men and women, who have served in the armed forces and have written memorable poetry about those experiences. Some of the poets on that page are not veterans, but have written about the experiences that come from living with and talking with veterans. Let me add that on that page, you will find a couple of interesting links along with the poems. One is to a website called Warrior Writers, which is a terrific, both website and project to bring together veterans with combat experience who seek to write poetry. They do workshops all over the U.S. and it's a vital resource for more information should you be interested in becoming a poet or picking up poetry. So I wanted to there to point people to a couple of interesting sites. I know Doug comes with a lot of material in mind. I have a few poems here by Warrior Writers that I’d like to read. What do you say, Doug? Doug Anderson: I say let's do it. We talked quite a lot about Wilfred Owen et Decorum est,” as an “Dulce example of the war poetry of World War I which was, in fact, the end of any romantic idea about war that might have been voiced by Tennyson or Yeats, and for that reason they were excluded from the larger anthology of English poets that was edited by Yeats because they didn't write in a tasteful way. But there was one poet of World War I that was interesting. His name was Rupert Brooke. He never actually got to the war. He died of dysentery while waiting to be shipped to Gallipoli. So the poems he wrote were all imagining war. I'd like to read one of
Acolytes of war is one word, .com, and you will find a page there called Time Now: The Iraq & Afghanistan Wars in Art, Film, and Literature. They have a page devoted to 22 American, Iraq, and Afghanistan war poets and there's an extraordinary range of contemporary poets, men and women, who have served in the armed forces and have written memorable poetry about those experiences. Some of the poets on that page are not veterans, but have written about the experiences that come from living with and talking with veterans. Let me add that on that page, you will find a couple of interesting links along with the poems. One is to a website called Warrior Writers, which is a terrific, both website and project to bring together veterans with combat experience who seek to write poetry. They do workshops all over the U.S. and it's a vital resource for more information should you be interested in becoming a poet or picking up poetry. So I wanted to there to point people to a couple of interesting sites. I know Doug comes with a lot of material in mind. I have a few poems here by Warrior Writers that I’d like to read. What do you say, Doug? Doug Anderson: I say let's do it. We talked quite a lot about Wilfred Owen “Dulce et Decorum est,” as an example of the war poetry of World War I which was, in fact, the end of any romantic idea about war that might have been voiced by Tennyson or Yeats, and for that reason they were excluded from the larger anthology of English poets that was edited by Yeats because they didn't write in a tasteful way. But there was one poet of World War I that was interesting. His name was Rupert Brooke. He never actually got to the war. He died of dysentery while waiting to be shipped to Gallipoli. So the poems he wrote were all imagining war. I'd like to read one of
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