J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

Enola Gay is not only one of Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark's most memorable tracks, it is one of the most poignant, bittersweet and perhaps contradictory pop songs ever written. It’s an incredibly ...

War, like love, has long inspired artists and musicians. That is especially true of the songs written in response to the Vietnam War during the countercultural movements of the 1960s and ’70s. The ...

The mud of the Somme Valley was still on Ewart Tempest’s boots when he marched into Vignacourt, a French village some fifteen miles behind the British front line. It was April 5, 1916. Tempest, a fair ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. War, like love, has long inspired artists ...