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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

To mark the anniversary of Martin Carter’s passing on December 13, 1997, Gemma Robinson looks at Carter’s Poems of Succession, published 40 years ago this ...

The larger poem is about passing a similar message on to his son. “It’s about needing to push my son not to be afraid of contact, but also to understand the risks that are involved,” said Davis.

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.