It’s a bitter paradox that even the most virulently antiwar of the famous soldier poets of World War I felt ... is the biggest surprise. He was American, a Harvard graduate and the uncle of ...

As a boy, he loved poetry.' FREDDIE HUNN:'I was very fond ... FREDDIE HUNN:So I went to the barracks and said I want to be a soldier. FREDDIE HUNN:And they said "All right well how old are you?" ...

Today The Atlantic launches “The Best American Poetry of the 21st Century (So Far ... or third collection (Solmaz Sharif, Layli Long Soldier, Richard Siken). From the introduction ...