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 ...

A neighbor called, said two guys left, their families are so sad. They weren't that old their kinfolk said, they're missed, families feel bad. Another friend lost a brother, who didn't live nearby.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

DAVENPORT, Iowa (KWQC) -Becky Nakashima Brooke, owner of Illuminate Healing Studio, is partnering with Midwest Writing Center’s Ryan Collins for Narrating Grief Through Poetry. The healing workshop is ...

Over six decades after she first hit the scene, Judy Collins remains one of the most iconic artists of the ’60s folk movement. The musician, who had hits with her takes on “Both Sides Now,” “Amazing ...

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 ...