Poetry from Daily Life: Reading and writing about pain and loss in small, manageable doses
Writer Ken Slesarik turned to poetry, both reading it and writing it, after the death of his son. He explains how poetry has ...
When Poets Face Death
Yeats, wrote ruefully about his waning poetic powers in “The Circus Animal’s Desertion,” published in The Atlantic in January ...
Mark Woods: Recalling the life of Jimmy Carter — and a poem he wrote about his death
Thursday will be a National Day of Mourning. And we should be mourning. Not the death of Jimmy Carter at 100, but that his ...
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Death Adds Poetry To Symphony Of Life
Phenomenon of death adds poetry and profundity to the symphony of life. Imagine a garden without autumn, where flowers never fade, fruits never ripen, and leaves never fall - a static, lifeless ...
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Art Beat: The poetry of grief
Elizabeth Rae Bullmer received her B.A. in Theatre and English, with Emphasis in Creative Writing and Performance, from Alma ...
'Classes canceled': A poem to mark the Perry community's loss | Opinion
Evan Freemyer writes that he penned this poem "to express the shock, alienation, and grief that I felt" after a principal and ...