The poet and author Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih has just won another award, for works that weave past and present, what we’ve ...

We’ve rounded up 40 moving poems to read at a funeral, share with someone who has lost a loved one or help you mourn. Some of these are short poems, while others are excerpts from longer poetry ...

Sometimes it's hard to put loss into words, but poems about losing a loved one can help you comfort a friend, family member, or acquaintance that has just lost someone close. Poems can also ...

Lyric poetry refers to a short ... Poem” Eros is often the fuel of the lyric imagination, which chooses to use words, sentences, musical structures of language to re/member the beloved, to enter that ...

On a street lined with shops and restaurants, Jonathan McCallum is someone the tourists and locals of Nashville’s 12 South ...

Once upon a time, many years ago, a young woman pressed her senior prom corsage in a book of Shakespearean love poems. She placed the book on her dressing table next to a framed photo of her with ...

But Fairfax balked at putting a legitimate king on trial, and then cutting off his head. This is the poem Fairfax wrote after Charles’s execution. He wanted such a terrible act to be ‘blotted’ out of ...