Verses of mortality and wonder. A palpable grief saturates Maine poet Flynn O’Brien’s new poetry collection, “Cast” (Elsewhere), sometimes thick as blood, sometimes dry as sand, sometimes ...

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 ...

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.

Death poems emerge when there is a gathering. They start in the body, and reassemble themselves within us in fragments. Vanessa Fortin Laundry of Legends II is part of a series of performances ...

On Jan. 6, Kryvtsov summed up the main topic of his writing: “Ninety percent of the poems here are about death," he wrote on Facebook. The poem about violets that Kryvtsov wrote before his death ...