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 ...

Not only do funeral poems help people process the loss of a ... learned to read and write from the Wheatleys, a prominent family in Boston who purchased her as a slave when she was a young girl.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with author Reginald Dwayne Betts about his new collection of poems, "Doggerel," a meditation on family, friendship and falling in love.

free verse poems don't follow any obvious rules. Instead they often follow the rhythms of natural speech. So that's the way that we speak in everyday life with our friends and family.