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

Even when you’re dealing with an agonizing loss, funeral poems are a comfort. Moral of the story ... can dig in to a longer ...

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.

Sometimes, the right book shows up just at the right time. Our book critic encountered two such books this week: Water, Water ...

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 ...

Reflections of a Jewish Psychologist” includes poems that transport readers to psychological and spiritual spaces, like ...

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 ...

Chief among the insights we gain from reading history is that what we read is often relevant to what we are experiencing ...

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