Taormina got the idea for Poems for Peace during a 2012 Peace Day celebration in Austin, ... Through SICA, Poems for Peace spread around the world – which didn’t surprise Taormina.

With “Poem of the Day,” The New York Sun offers a daily portion of verse selected by Joseph Bottum with the help of the North Carolina poet Sally Thomas, the Sun’s associate poetry editor. Tied to the ...

Not everybody was happy that World War I ended on Nov. 11, 1918, possibly least of all an Army colonel named George S. Patton. Patton, then 32, wrote a poem titled "Peace -- Nov. 11, 1918" in ...

In those moments the impulse to set the world straight holds its peace. The world simply is, and it is enjoyed. Today’s Poem of the Day reads like the internal tug-of-war it describes: the ...

Alison Barrera, owner of Da Green Coffee at South Maui Gardens and member of the Rotary Satellite Club of Kihei Wailea said, “On this momentous day, we celebrate international peace.