silenced by the snow-bound woods. above the timberline. Even as you climb you are turning past the overlook. None of us can see the switchbacks as we rise. Below, the forest shudders in wind. Arts ...

Sometimes it's hard to put loss into words, but poems about losing a loved one can help you comfort a friend, family member, ...

Dear Abby: In response to the letter from a postal worker in Cottage Grove, Minn., regarding the tragic loss of children in the Oklahoma City explosion: Five years ago, on the same date that letter… ...

W hen Covid struck and we were all told to stay at home, I thought my Poetry Pharmacy would come to a halt. It had taken me all over the world, acting as a kind of therapist, listening to people ...

This is the essence of Joanne Sherry Mitchell’s latest collection of contemporary poetry, "The Pain We Call Love," in which Mitchell digs into the harsh realities of love. Love is complex.

Shaping the Fractured Self: poetry of chronic illness and pain, edited by Heather Taylor Johnson, UWAP (www.uwap.com.au), 2017, 227pp, rrp $29.99 AUD isbn 9781742589312 Pain Poetry ...

The opioid crisis has made it even more urgent to come up with novel approaches to treating suffering. Finally there’s something effective.

PHANTOM PAIN WINGS, by Kim Hyesoon (New Directions, 182 pp., paperback, $18.95), translated from the Korean by Don Mee Choi, reads like a variety of horror — haunted, grotesque, futureless ...

Poems. Poem of pain and passion. July 13, 1928. Save this story. Save this story. The New Yorker, July 21, 1928 P. 63. Now we must abjure embraces, View Article. Published in the ...