NPR's Elissa Nadworny talks with poet Danez Smith about using poetry to understand and process complex emotions like grief. As the year comes to an end, we don't want to lose sight of the fact ...

Poetry is one of them. We often equate grief with the loss of a loved one, but we are now grieving because of a shift in lifestyle, whether it’s due to our remaining in place or a change in ...

Aileen Cassinetto’s “Catalog of Cures in Ordinary Time” establishes that necessary urgency in the first line and maintains it ...

Meet the Columbus group—founded by Shelbie Briggs, Kyle "Atlas" Flemings and Cortland Mullins—embracing healing through yoga, poetry and community.

Louise Machen, 44, from Middleton has been nominated for the Forward Prize which is the most prestigious award for poetry in ...

HARJO: Yes, something I never would have imagined. FADEL: Your poem is about the complexity of grief, the relationship of a mother and daughter, the story of your mom. What do you hope readers get ...

Zoe Karels is an eighth grader at the school who has now lived through a school shooting and is choosing to process the trauma and grief through a poem she wrote on Monday titled “Mourning”.

Grief, too, can have a premonitory shimmer ... As you might expect of a meticulous writer who came to songwriting by way of poetry, which still resides at the core of her identity—and, sure ...

Grief also plays an outsized role in Gizzi’s poetry. An elegy is, after all, a lamentation, and “Fierce Elegy” took so much of its inspiration from Gizzi’s own losses. In the poem “But the Heart in a ...