War Poetry
Poems and prose about conflict, armed conflict, and poetry's role in shaping perceptions and outcomes of war.
BY The Editors
100 Years of Poetry: The Magazine and War
Abigail Deutsch
American Service
Paisley Rekdal
A “Poetry-Fueled War”
Ruth Graham
Craft Vs. Conscience
Ange Mlinko
Poetry, Wartime, and Unwieldy Metaphors
Cliff Doerksen
War Stories
Evan Smith Rakoff
“Are We All Monsters?”
Jacob Silverman
- Matthew Doherty
- Eliza Griswold
- Aleksandar Hemon
- Lt. Gen. William James Lennox Jr.
- Rachel Cohen
- Chris Hedges
When Yellow Ribbons and Flag-Waving Aren't Enough
Nathaniel Fick
We Lived Happily During the War
Ilya Kaminsky
Vietnam Epic Treatment
Donald Revell
Poem (I lived in the first century of world wars)
Muriel Rukeyser
The Hurt Locker
Brian Turner
The End and the Beginning
Wisława Szymborska
Casualty
Seamus Heaney
Camouflaging the Chimera
Yusef Komunyakaa
To Our Land
Mahmoud Darwish
Ode for the American Dead in Asia
Thomas McGrath
Gettysburg: July 1, 1863
Jane Kenyon
Wildpeace
Yehuda Amichai
The Conscientious Objector
Karl Shapiro
The Grand Army of the Republic
John Spaulding
“After Experience Taught Me ...”
W. D. Snodgrass
At the Bomb Testing Site
William E. Stafford
Healing Gila
Lawson Fusao Inada
The Lost Pilot
James Tate
Apparition of the Exile
Bruce Weigl
Making Peace
Denise Levertov
Ode to a Drone
Amit Majmudar
High Noon at Los Alamos
Eleanor Wilner
On being asked for a War Poem
William Butler Yeats
Insensibility
Wilfred Owen
Love among the Ruins
Robert Browning
Concord Hymn
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Battle-Hymn of the Republic
Julia Ward Howe
Long, too long America
Walt Whitman
Armistice
Sophie Jewett
Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight
Vachel Lindsay
September, 1918
Amy Lowell
If We Must Die
Claude McKay
I Have a Rendezvous with Death
Alan Seeger
Anthem for Doomed Youth
Wilfred Owen
Arms and the Boy
Wilfred Owen
Strange Meeting
Wilfred Owen
Easter, 1916
William Butler Yeats
Grass
Carl Sandburg
Dreamers
Siegfried Sassoon
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field one Night
Walt Whitman
The French Revolution as It Appeared to Enthusiasts at Its Commencement
William Wordsworth