Photograph of Martha Burks performing at the 2016 Ties and Tux Gala, hosted by The Black Academy of Arts and Letters. Burks can be seen standing on the left side of the photograph, looking to the left of the camera and singing into a microphone. She is holding the microphone in her left hand and gesturing with her right hand. A man can be seen playing bass guitar in the background on the left side of the photograph.

Photograph of a boy (right) with Blair Underwood (left) at the 2016 Ties and Tux Gala, hosted by The Black Academy of Arts and Letters. They are standing side by side, looking at the camera and smiling. The boy is wearing headphones around his neck. Other guests can be seen conversing in the background of the photograph.

Photograph of a boy (left) with a man (right) at the 2016 Ties and Tux Gala, hosted by The Black Academy of Arts and Letters. They are standing side by side, looking at the camera and smiling. The boy is wearing headphones around his neck.

Photograph of a man playing guitar with the Gala Band at the 2016 Ties and Tux Gala, hosted by The Black Academy of Arts and Letters. The man can be seen on the left side of the photograph, looking to the left of the camera and smiling. Xavier Jackson (center) is playing keyboard behind him. A third man can be seen playing drums in the background on the left side of the photograph.

Photograph of Blair Underwood having his picture taken with another man and a woman at the 2016 Ties and Tux Gala, hosted by The Black Academy of Arts and Letters. They are standing side by side, facing to the right of the camera and smiling. Other guests can be seen around them in the foreground and background of the photograph.

Photograph of guests having their picture taken at the 2016 Ties and Tux Gala, hosted by The Black Academy of Arts and Letters. Two men and a woman can be seen in the center of the photograph, facing to the left of the camera and smiling. Another woman is standing across from them on the left side of the photograph, holding a cellphone out in front of her. Other guests can be seen conversing in the left and right portions of the photograph.

Photograph of Jada Thomas performing with a group of TBAAL students at the 2016 Ties and Tux Gala, hosted by The Black Academy of Arts and Letters. This image is a still taken from the video recording of the event. Thomas can be seen in the center of the photograph, looking directly at the camera and singing into a microphone. She is holding the microphone in her left hand and resting her right hand on her hip. Two other members of the group can be seen on stage behind her, singing into microphones. Two men can be seen playing drums in the background.

Photograph of Blair Underwood (right) receiving the Luminary Arts Award at the 2016 Ties and Tux Gala, hosted by The Black Academy of Arts and Letters. This image is a still taken from the video recording of the event. Underwood is standing on stage with Curtis King and eight TBAAL students. He is facing to the left of the camera, holding the award in his right hand and a microphone in his left hand. He appears to be speaking. Members of the audience can be seen sitting in the bottom portion of the photograph with their backs turned to the camera.

Photograph of a young woman performing with a group of TBAAL students at the 2016 Ties and Tux Gala, hosted by The Black Academy of Arts and Letters. This image is a still taken from the video recording of the event. The girl is facing the camera and holding a microphone up to her mouth with her left hand. Another member of the group can be seen behind her on the left side of the photograph.

Photograph of a young woman performing with a group of TBAAL students at the 2016 Ties and Tux Gala, hosted by The Black Academy of Arts and Letters. This image is a still taken from the video recording of the event. The girl can be seen in the center of the photograph, facing to the right of the camera and singing into a microphone. She is leaning forward, resting her right hand on her hip. She is holding the microphone in her left hand. Terrance Dean (middle row, center), Jada Thomas (middle row, right), and another member of the group can be seen standing on stage behind the girl, looking at her. Xavier Jackson (back right, sitting) and two other men are playing instruments in the background.

Photograph of Blair Underwood (right) receiving the Luminary Arts Award at the 2016 Ties and Tux Gala, hosted by The Black Academy of Arts and Letters. This image is a still taken from the video recording of the event. Underwood is standing on stage with eight TBAAL students, facing to the left of the camera. He is holding the award in his right hand and a microphone in his left hand. Several of the students are smiling.

Photograph of a table at the 2016 Ties and Tux Gala, hosted by The Black Academy of Arts and Letters. Salads and desserts have been placed around the table, along with several wine glasses. A sign in the center of the table reads, "#18 [--] Ties & Tux Gala [--] #18 [--] Philip Collins." Other tables can be seen in the background.

Photograph of a woman at the 2016 Ties and Tux Gala, hosted by The Black Academy of Arts and Letters. The woman can be seen in the center of the photograph, looking at the camera and smiling.

Photograph of a young man with a video camera before the 2016 Ties and Tux Gala, hosted by The Black Academy of Arts and Letters. The boy can be seen in the center of the photograph, looking at the camera on a tall tripod in front of him. He is holding a microphone in his left hand. A painting can be seen among several easels in the background on the right side of the photograph. Empty dining tables and chairs can be seen in the background on the left.

Photograph of the Grand Ballroom at the Hilton Anatole Hotel Dallas before the 2016 Ties and Tux Gala, hosted by The Black Academy of Arts and Letters. Round dining tables can be seen throughout the room in rows. A large, glitter sign displaying the event logo can be seen hanging above a stage in the background of the photograph.

Photograph of the cover of "Over Here: War Time Rhymes" by Edgar A. Guest, held by UNT Special Collections. The cover is dark blue with the first part of the title in dark blue inside of a gold banner, the rest of the title and author stamped in gold under it.

Photographs of "October and Other Poems" by Robert Bridges, held by UNT Special Collections. The book has an old white cover, framed by a black line and the title printed at the top in black. Image 2, "The West Front" and "To the United States of America." Page 32 contains the title of the first one at the top, and page 33 has the other one at the top followed by the date April 1917.

Photograph of the cover of "The Red Flower: Poems Written in War Time" by Henry Van Dyke, held by UNT Special Collections. The cover is white with a dark blue spine, the top of the front contains the title at the top and author at the bottom in dark blue print. In the middle of it is an orange/red flower design.

Photograph of the title page from "Sonnets from a Prison Camp" by Archibald Allan Bowman, held by UNT Special Collections. Scottish philosopher and poet Allan Archibald Bowman (1883-1936) was working as a professor at Princeton University when World War I began. He took a leave of absence in 1915, enlisted in the British Army, and was assigned to the Highland Light Infantry. Three years later, Bowman was taken prisoner by German forces during the Battle of Lys. The poems collected in Sonnets from a Prison Camp were written after Bowman’s capture, between April 27 and July 25, 1918. Most were composed at the Rastatt prison camp, though some were written after Bowman was transferred to Hesepe. The volume itself contains twelve chronologically arranged sections and a clean, minimal layout with one sonnet per page. This neatly bound, 152-page book has a board cover with thread wear on the bottom and top of the spine. A lithographed errata slip on different paper is pasted into the binding and precedes the title page. Part of the Soldier Poets section of the exhibit, Sonnets from a Prison Camp contains poems that reflect on the horrors of war, the boredom of life in a …

Photograph of the cover of "From an Outpost and Other Poems" by Leslie Coulson, held by UNT Special Collections. The white paper cover has a thin orange line that frames the title, followed by a photo of a young man and the author under the picture all in orange tint.

Photograph of "Naked Warriors" by Herbert Read, held by UNT Special Collections. In 1917, poet and literary critic Herbert Read co-founded the avant-garde quarterly journal Arts and Letters, which in 1919 published Read’s book Naked Warriors. (The volume’s first section “Kneeshaw Goes to War” originally appeared in Arts and Letters, as noted in the contents.) This sixty-page volume of poetry and prose explores the arc of the British soldier’s combat experience in World War I. Read, who served in the war and was awarded both the Distinguished Service Order and the Military Cross, includes an epigraph before each section, visually separating sections that are joined by a thematic progression rather than common characters. Before the contents page, readers encounter a six-line poem entitled “Parody of a Forgotten Beauty” and a one-paragraph preface in which Read encourages his generation to “strive to create a beauty where hitherto it has had no absolute existence” (5). This desire is reflected in the cover illustration, thought to be the work of artist Wyndham Lewis. The central figure employs Vorticism, an early twentieth-century British art movement using a form of urban cubism to express the dynamism of the modern world. The book is bound in …

Photograph of the cover of "Forward, March!" by Angela Morgan, held by UNT Special Collections. The dark red cover has the title at the top left corner, followed by a graphic of a hand holding a torch and the author. This all encased by a line, and all in gold lettering/lines.

Photograph of the cover of "Soldier Songs from Anzac" by Tom Skeyhill, held by UNT Special Collections. The cover is worn lavender in color, with a double border in black ink. The title is at the top, and the publishing information at the bottom also in black ink.

Photographs of "Selected Poems on Woodrow Wilson," held by UNT Special Collections. The first image, the pale blue cover of the book with the title and author printed at the top of the front in dark blue. The second image shows the title page of the book, including the editor, illustrator and publishing information. Image 3, "The Crusader (In Memory of Woodrow Wilson)" poem by Thomas Curtis Clark on page 57. On the page to the left of it is an illustration of a pointed doorway, flags seen inside of it.