Laney Leighanne, “A Father’s Daughter,” overcoming loss through writing, coping with parental addiction, grief poetry book, ...

Turn to comforting poems about death to find strength and encouragement, or as a meaningful way to let someone know they are not alone in their grief. You can also read poetry about loss at ...

Megan Pinto, a 2014 Ohio Wesleyan University graduate, will return to her alma mater this month to read from her new poetry ...

When Comal County resident Gwen Estrada’s dad died when she was 15 years old, she turned to poetry as a coping mechanism, documenting her grief through stanzas and rhymes. Written in composition books ...

Who’s got time for poems when the world’s on fire?” asks Aja Monet in the heart-achingly beautiful and gut-wrenchingly honest ...

The scent on my skin leads me to the mother of my mother, three diamonds lost, flower petal, so small, so red the hummingbird ...

These two poems, a villanelle and a sijo, were written by my former students. “The Immortal Pain,” by Lilly Ray Grief is a pain that never dies. You faded behind eyes of pale blue. I watched life ...

Read our review of new play *Statues*, written by and starring Azan Ahmed, now in performances at the Bush Theatre to 9 ...

Riley Keough, the daughter of Lisa Marie Presley, has faithfully completed her mother’s memoir after her sudden death in 2023 ...

But the poem is about more than Jordan’s title-winning shot. It’s also about the death of a loved one and processing grief. Smith uses the poem to teach her students about structure, pacing, allusion, ...

Poet, essayist and cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib paced backstage at the Logan Center for the Arts, 915 E. 60th St., like a ...