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Title Author Year
War Is Kind [excerpt] Stephen Crane 1899
Phantom Noise Brian Turner 2010
“John Brown’s Body” [There were three stout pillars that held up all] Stephen Vincent Benét 1927
Rouge Bouquet Joyce Kilmer 2018
The American Soldier Philip Freneau 1790
Buffalograss Jake Skeets 2019
Firing Squad Ilya Kaminsky 2018
The Conflict of Convictions Herman Melville 1860
Cavalry Crossing a Ford Walt Whitman
Exposure Wilfred Owen 2016
1915 Robert Graves 1917
Everyone Sang Siegfried Sassoon 1920
Blackout Faiz Ahmed Faiz 1987
The Battle Hymn of the Republic Julia Ward Howe 1862
Why I Don’t Mention Flowers When Conversations with My Brother Reach Uncomfortable Silences Natalie Diaz 2016
In a Village in the West Bank Naomi Shihab Nye 2025
[When night draws on, remembering keeps me wakeful] al-Khansāʾ 1922
To One of the Brave Lucian B. Watkins 1903
No One Speaks of How Tendrils Feed on the Fruits Xan Forest Phillips 2019
Song of Hope Daisy Zamora 1995

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