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 ...

There, she tends to memory as much as to soil. The poem is elegant in its restraint, exploring the speaker’s grief over her father’s death through the sensory language of a garden. Tonally ...

Winter begins tonight, and with the Solstice and a change in the seasons, we invited Vermont poet David Crews to share his thoughts and a poem. Dec 21, 2023 — Winter begins tonight, and with the ...

Tareen, a young poet from Kashmir, isn't here to dazzle. His verses are often delicate, always sincere. There's no posturing.

religious poems and poems for the grieving. Rossetti’s “Love Came Down at Christmas” has simple verses that equate the birth of Jesus Christ as love sent from heaven itself, but it’s this ...

In this poem, the speaker grapples with the grief of losing a father who was missing while alive, but in death feels omnipresent. The heart of the poem lies in the questions and possibility ...

The father-to-be took to poetry to share his grief with the world. More from CafeMom: Surviving the Grief That Swallowed Me Whole After My Miscarriage Was Beyond Hard The couple knew they wanted a ...

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 ...

Clyne-Rekh wrote the poem in 1959 when she was 19 years old, out of her grief over the death of her first dog, a Labrador retriever named Major. When she got married, she showed the poem to her ...

Recurrent themes in Limón's poetry − specifically in "Bright Dead Things" and "The Carrying" − are death, grief, love and joy, and how they coexist. "As a society, we don't take time to ...