Writer Ken Slesarik turned to poetry, both reading it and writing it, after the death of his son. He explains how poetry has ...
And while grief softens over time, you always miss your mom. These poems about the loss of a mother express how it feels when ...
The best-selling grief books for healing. If you’re recently bereaved, there are several books on coping with grief that can ...
For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets and translators to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages. A ...
By CAROLYN BROWN Staff Writer Peter Gizzi, professor of poetry at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, recently won the ...
It deals with loss, recovery ... and how it might rescue us from grief and longing. ‘As a sailor and swimmer, it plays a big role in my life and my poetry. My mentor, Rebecca Goss (a Forward ...
At 15, she won the Barjeel Prize for her poignant poem I Didn’t Steal the Cloud. Displaced from Gaza City after October 7, 2023, Batool continues to write and share her powerful poetry ...