Use these sympathy poems in cards, messages, texts, or other ways to support a grieving friend or family member. Turn to ...

Charles's third collection — including the poem "a Year" — titled a Year & other poems is out Tuesday. The book looks at this endless passing of time, and considers how to live with it.

Giovanni’s first published work was the poetry collection Black Feelings, Black Talk in 1968, a book that heralded her a powerful figure in the burgeoning Black Arts movement of the 60s and 70s.

Here are eight poems about my experience as a caregiver to my wife during her final days. I wrote eight poems in chronological order of the events that led to my wife's death, as I spent 77,000 hours ...

In the fall of 1962, just one year before her death by suicide, Sylvia Plath experienced a heady flash of foresight. The poetry collection she was working in pre-breakfast, 4 a.m. sprints, she ...

Donald Justice's Collected Poems, published less than two weeks after his death, is a slender volume for a life's work. At around 300 pages, it could easily be overlooked on a shelf beside the ...

Joy Harjo. Leslie Silko’s witchery poem, “A Long Time Ago,” attributes evil in the Americas to a story that could not be turned back; it is a classic and will be reprinted in the forthcoming ...

Consider, for instance, her slim masterpiece “The Father”: 52 short poems describing, with shocking intimacy, the illness and death of the terrifying man who raised her.

The book looks at this endless passing of time, and considers how to live with it. In 2016, when first writing this poem, Charles had just moved to California after completing her MFA.

In her third poetry collection, 2019 Pulitzer-finalist Jos Charles examines time and what it means to mourn — and how knowing that there is an "after" can teach us to embrace it.