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 ...
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 ...
Her body was taken away, but none of the usual touchstones for grief were available to our family. There was no funeral or supportive gathering, no deliveries of food and no hugs. For months ...
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limon about her poem engraved on NASA's spaceship headed 1.8 billion miles to the Jupiter moon of Europa.