Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Students expressed themselves through poetry that advocated for peace in their communities, homes and schools. Their poetic ...

Bombs are dropping across the world, yet here, in my garden, flowers bloom, birds sing, the grass grows luxuriant. Soldiers are shooting soldiers, people hide in bomb shelters, people are hungry. Here ...

While Springsteen sang about the Rising. Laguna Woods author and poet Charles Redner recently wrote this poem to honor the 22nd anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks and the thousands of lives lost.

The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation has announced the winners of the 2011 Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace Poetry Awards. Since 1995, the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation has made an annual series of awards to ...

TOKYO — A mother's love and a yearning for peace flowed from Japanese Empress Masako's poem, read Friday at an annual celebration of poetry at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. The poem sings of how ...

Sixth-grade student Kobey Nishihira-Asuncion receives recognition for his grand prize award-winning poem in the 20th annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Peace Poetry Awards ceremony May 28 at the ...

Like seven generations of men before him, Andrew Himes was expected to become a Baptist preacher. But that plan changed when he was in eighth grade and a race riot broke out in his school in rural ...

In the summer of 1970, Doug Rawlings returned to the U.S. from the central highlands of Vietnam, changed by the 13½ months he’d spent attached to an artillery unit there, but not in the ways he’d ...

KAPA‘A — Ryan-Leonard Peters from Kapa’a Middle School was awarded the Kaua‘i grand prize in the 22nd annual the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Peace Poetry Awards by the International Peace Poem ...

Maui winners in the 2025 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Peace Poetry Competition gather for a photograph at the University of Hawaii-Maui Sunday. The students received a congratulatory certificate from ...

Afghan Pashto poets gather as they read their poems at a cultural organization in Jalalabad. Jalalabad is regarded as the heartland of Afghan poetry in a region better known for its warriors than its ...