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 ...

For this would we give thanks. A simple, short poem with a fixed refrain, Hattie Howard’s “Let Us Give Thanks” gets to the core of what makes this holiday very special: good company ...

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 ...

To capture their experiences, Save the Children invited children from countries around the world to write short poems about COVID-19, life under lockdown, and how the pandemic has changed their lives.

In an acrostic poem, the first letter of each line spells a word. The word is the subject of the poem. She really really likes stars. But this is no ordinary poem. This is an acrostic. So there is ...

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

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

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 ...