Anguish over senseless wars

Can literary writers turn the anguish caused by senseless wars into strength?

I joined a group of Nepali writers, mostly poets, to attend the 64th SAARC literary festival held in New Delhi from December 3-6, 2023. The theme of the conference, “anguish and senseless wars”, attracted me. Anguish is a theme that the writers have been writing about. This Anguish, Like a Kind of Intimate Song is the title of a book written by L Leigh Westerfield. Anguish is related to the ''resistance in women's literature of World War II" in that book. A 90-year-old Punjabi fiction writer, Ajeet Cour, felt this “anguish” to be the “intimate song”, in this case. She wanted to share this anguish with writers of this region.