A similar pensive tone is present in his recent collection, A Sharper Silence, wherein he grieves the passing of his wife, Colleen Ahern-Hettich, who died last January from lung cancer. The couple, ...
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 ...
Eufe Tantia Jr.’s new collection offers a reflective meditation on love, belief, and what it means to be human in a ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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