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Alongside ‘The Wound in Time’, here we’ve curated a collection of just some of the most poignant World War One poems, including both the writing of famous soldier poets and that of nurses, mothers, ...

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Remembrance Day, also known as Armistice Day, will fall on 11 November, as it does every year. The occasion is also marked on ...

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“I thought the poem best described how we feel right now,” said Keizo Honda, 58, the secretary-general of the Japan Youth Development Association (JYDA) in Tokyo. The JYDA, which serves as the ...

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In 1999, Fiona Apple released 'When The Pawn...," her second album with a title that was actually 90 words long.

For 15 years, the Humanities Institute has honored the memory of longtime poet, film critic and Cabrillo College professor Morton Marcus with an annual poetry prize and reading by a local poet.