Poet J. K. Kennedy discusses balancing humor with anxiety and/or grief in poetry and shares five tricks she uses to illustrate her emotions without letting them turn into quicksand for the reader.
I’ve probably been working on the same 70 or 80 poems for the last 15 or 20 years ... The Universal Fire turned into a mournful procession of love and grief. Named after the 2008 blaze that that ...
when was the last time you heard someone talk in detail about their grief? For many of us, it could be rarely or never. There are several reasons for this. Grieving people often avoid raising the ...