It's been a difficult year for many people. NPR's Elissa Nadworny talks with poet Danez Smith about using poetry to understand and process complex emotions like grief. As the year comes to an end, we ...

It happened before she expected it: Victoria Chang’s parents were struck by illness. First her father was severely debilitated by a stroke; then her mother died. She felt so isolated by caregiving ...

Time of Grief: Mourning Poems (photos by the author for Hyperallergic) There are surprisingly few poetry collections built around the experience of loss. One of them, published just last year, is Time ...

With the COVID-19 death toll beyond half a million, the U.S. is in a state of grief. Families mourn for loved ones who have passed, just as communities throughout the country stir with grief after ...

How can we find better ways to talk about grief and channel it into art? That’s the question LGBTQ activist and Detroit native Natasha Miller will explore through poetry as part of a Science of Grief ...

My guest today on Poetry from Daily Life is Ken Slesarik, who lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Ken became a writer 17 years ago and after the loss of his son began to focus on grief and loss poetry. Two ...

April is National Poetry Month. In the midst of a pandemic, this year’s celebrations have either been suspended, or the organizers have become more creative in their planning. Where most towns across ...

As the year comes to an end, we don't want to lose sight of the fact that it's been a difficult one for a lot of people. With the pandemic raging due to the omicron variant, slow economic recovery and ...