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.

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 ...

I’m afraid that my family and friends will get sick. I miss playing with my friends at school ... Never before have so many children been out of school at the same time. “These powerful poems show the ...

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.