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.

George Wilkerson and Kat Bodrie share a unique relationship. Wilkinson is an inmate on North Carolina’s death row. Bodrie is ...

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.

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

Alfaguara publishes the 'Complete Poetry' of the Argentine writer, a corpus that he kept almost hidden during his lifetime, now adding the unpublished book 'Fable of Death', written in 1941, and ...

Marcellus ‘Khaliifah’ Williams, a Missouri death row prisoner, writes poetry to express himself, including one calling for his exoneration.

‘90% of the Poems Here Are About Death’: Ukraine Grieves a Poet-Soldier Maksym Kryvtsov's verses connected people with the front lines. Last month, he was killed in battle.

Clyne-Rekh wrote the poem in 1959 when she was 19 years old, out of her grief over the death of her first dog, a Labrador retriever named Major.

New England Literary News Poetry on death and grief, some vintage sci-fi, and a look at New England’s notable women By Nina MacLaughlin Globe Correspondent, Updated August 11, 2022, 5:17 p.m.

More than 40 years later and after spending more than two decades on death row, Williams is still writing poems to express himself.