Poems about death can help comfort you after losing a loved one. We are driven to find release and comfort from other people's stories about the same experience.

That’s the title of one of Nicole Sealey’s many poems about life, death and the search for meaning in her debut poetry collection, “Ordinary Beast.” (It is also the final line of a famous ...

Vuong's highly anticipated second poetry collection Time Is a Mother is out on Tuesday. In it, he builds a space for rumination on time with poems written in the aftermath of his mother's death.

Donald Hall reflects on the poetry of his late wife, Jane Kenyon, on mortality, and on how her death influenced his own work.

Those hip, trend-loving kids of today? They’ll be ones to tell you to burn all that nonsense. Poetry, I mean. Just like what Nero did in ye olden days of Rome. But this isn’t Ancient Rome; and ...

Each poem in Kim Hyesoon's new poetry collection represents a single day, during which the spirit roams after death before ...

Among the prison poets White publishes is Bill Clark, who began writing poetry after he arrived on death row in 1998. Clark, who was convicted the year before of a double murder involving a ...

A Death-Haunted Poetry Book Mulls Life’s Reversals of Fortune. ... Mary Ruefle’s new poetry book, “Dunce,” haunted by the death of her mother, was longlisted for a National Book Award.

Like many poems shadowed by mortality, “July Mountain” has what the late literary critic Helen Vendler called “binocular vision,” focused on both life and death.

When Poets Face Death. Their later works have a peculiar power. By Walt Hunter. Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Sylvia Salmi / Bettmann / Getty. January 9, 2025. Share. Save.