Losing your mom is so difficult. It's a life-changing event that can leave you feeling untethered. And while grief softens over time, you always miss your mom. These poems about the loss of a ...

Woven through this collection are ideas and images of lost things — loves, words, species, trust, safety. But it is not a collection of brooding or grief. The poems are full of spark and spunk ...

They have, they say, ‘brought together the best and most varied examples we can find of poems of loss and mourning written in English (and translated into English) between Classical antiquity and the ...

This poem embodies that sort of intense, fleeting crush you get on someone that feels as though you know them from a past life. You know nothing about them, only what you imagine them to be like.

This poem is included in my poetry full-length debut, The Rent Eats First. The book focuses on my experience as a housing justice lawyer, situating that experience within the privileges and inequities ...

The Passionfruit Review is now open for submissions for their next competition on the theme of Love and Loss. Entrants are welcome to submit previously unpublished poems written in the English ...

My guest today on Poetry from Daily Life is Ken Slesarik, who lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Ken became a writer 17 years ago and after the loss of his son began to focus on grief and loss poetry.

we remember lines from poetry and song but rarely from prose. In translation (particularly when, as with the present collection, it is into another language that is completely different) inevitably ...

we’re asking poets and translators to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages. A selection from Emily Osborne’s translation of Egill Skallagrímsson’s “Cruel Loss of Sons” appears in our new ...