When Eduardo Martínez-Leyva first started writing poetry for his MFA thesis, he didn’t realize it would be years before he ...

Veteran Scott Scovronski, who serves with DAV chapter 3 in Green Bay, advises people to be aware of the PTSD triggers that ...

Karolina's nomination gains special significance from the enduring UK-Poland military bonds. During World War II, 145 Polish pilots served in the Battle of Britain with a decisive 2.8:1 kill-to-loss ...

Healing Wave Aquatics is using a 97-degree pool to provide trauma-informed aquatic therapy for service members dealing with ...

Each appointment with VA was another nail sealing the coffin shut, suffocating any hope that they could help me.

Kyle Poteat, an Army veteran who died after a drug overdose in 2019, used poetry to cope with some of the trauma he endured at war. His father, Jerry, shared ...

What causes PTSD? Any number of traumatic events can cause PTSD. These may include experiencing trauma in the form of firsthand abuse, sexual assault, military combat or being in a car accident ...

For 23 years, A.O. Scott was a film critic for the New York Times. For the past five months, he has been the nation’s most prominent poetry critic, writing a monthly column that uses the Times ...

Poetry aesthetics may be a new frontier for neuroimaging research, but already it’s clear that there is a wealth of pleasure to be gained from engaging with poems. Five ways to celebrate National ...

Othello has long been understood as a play about race, love, and jealousy. But it is also a play about soldiers experiencing what we now call post-traumatic stress. In March 1947, Judge Harry ...

Here are six more poems that deal in different ways with giant monsters: 1. Beowulf. Beowulf is an Anglo-Saxon epic poem about the defeat of Grendel – a creature whose exact form is still ...