Release your emotions, cry a little, and then heal. Poetry is all about sharing feelings and emotion and is one of the greatest forms of literature to read during hard times. Poems about death can ...

He was hardly the only famous poet of his blazing, far-flung generation. But he was the one most dogged by disputes over the nature and authenticity of his talent. Even among admirers, there was ample ...

‘Poetry helped me find my feet again’: Joanna Scanlan and Ophelia Lovibond perform readings in memory of loved ones for ...

Paul Celan, Memory Rose Into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry, A Bilingual Edition, translated by Pierre Joris and with commentary by Pierre Joris and Barbara Wiedemann, 2020 (image ...

Vanessa Fortin Laundry of Legends II is part of a series of performances that begin with death poems. These particular texts become oracle making, death fuelled time-machines when they are transformed ...

Marcellus “Khaliifah” Williams wrote his first poem when he was about 14 — for a girl he was “sweet on” while growing up in St. Louis. He wrote it in pencil on a sheet of notebook paper and gave it to ...

“No one has yet to begin a life who will not end it,” Mary Ruefle writes in “On Beginnings,” the first piece in her collected lectures, “Madness, Rack, and Honey.” It’s more of a lecture on endings, ...

Poetry is the meeting point of parallel lines—in infinity, but also in the here and now. It is where the patent and incontrovertible intersects with the ineffable and incommensurable. It can be as ...

The poet Ocean Vuong says two years after he lost his mother to cancer, he was feeling "smug in [his] healing" — when the worst moment came. "One day, I woke up in the middle of the night, two in the ...

For decades Olivia Harrison has been very open in acknowledging her love for her late husband and Beatles legend, the late George Harrison. She’s written a biography about George, co-produced a ...