but they also provide comfort to those left behind. We’ve rounded up 40 moving poems to read at a funeral, share with someone ...

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D.N. “This Is Not a Small Voice” by Sonia Sanchez Adrian Neibauer’s fifth grade students in Colorado have loved this “short and powerful” poem. As not-quite-tweens, Neibauer said his students “are ...

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.

Mark Jarman’s poem spoke to me today, such a short time before the election. Everything is always on the cusp, isn’t it?

When I came back from Iraq, I carried with me the images of landscapes littered with ruined bodies. To deal with the stew of ...

For a decade, Kay Laurell was one of the best known Broadway starlets and silent film actresses in the country. This ...

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The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I wonder if I will miss the moss,” by Jane Mead, and his own poem “Mother.” The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss her translation ...

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Nisga'a writer Jordan Abel has won the Governor General's Literary Awards for fiction for his novel Empty Spaces. Empty ...