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.

So that's the way that we speak in everyday life with our friends and family. Free verse and narrative poems can sometimes seem similar, but they are not the same. One key difference is that ...

The theme of family was prominent in two of her most celebrated ... “All My Shoes Come in Twos” (1957), based on poems she had written for her children. Her husband died in 2015; one of ...

The winner of the 2024 Montana Book Awards has been announced: Joe Wilkins’ novel, “The Entire Sky” (Little, Brown) about finding family in eastern Montana ... Award for “One-Sentence Journal: Short ...