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An astonishing number of published poets were killed in World War I. From them, and from the few who survived, we have a good description of several phases of warfare, including what the battlefield was like, the comradeship among the soldiers, and how they thought and felt about why they were fighting. Loren Horton discusses these issues, and the Reading Aloud group reads poems by Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon and others.Horton received degrees from UNI and the University of Iowa. He taught history for many years, worked at the State Historical Society of Iowa for more than twenty years, and is the author of books of history and poetry.READING ALOUD is a poetry-reading group based at the Iowa City Senior Center. It has been in existence for ten years. Its mission is to bring the pleasure and enlightenment of poetry far and wide within this community. Ina Loewenberg is its founder and leader, and the dozen or so readers participate actively in choosing poems to read and designing programs. Readers will include Michael Chan, Jim Curry, Jonni Ellsworth, Chuck Felling, Mary Gutmann, Pat Huff, Ina Loewenberg, Nancy Lynch, Cari Malone, Kathy Mitchell, and Betty Norbeck. For more information about the State Historical Society of Iowa, visit www.iowahistory.org.