Sometimes it's hard to put loss into words, but poems about losing a loved one can help you comfort a friend, family member, or acquaintance that has just lost someone close. Poems can also validate ...

Though almost all of Emily Dickinson’s famous poems, from the morbid “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” to the uplifting “‘Hope’ Is the Thing With Feathers,” were published after her death, she’s ...

Pink Dust, a collection about aging and death, offers an optimistic vision of life as a continual act of reading.

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Kendall Dunkelberg's "Tree Fall with Birdsong" explores the intersection of nature, memory, and the human spirit. The collection features poems about birds, landscapes, childhood memories, and ...

Months before Andrea Gibson, Colorado's renowned poet laurate, died of terminal ovarian cancer, they sat down for their final television interview on an episode of NBC Chicago's "It's OK to Ask ...

A few years ago, OneJax contacted Jimmy Carter to see if he would write a letter for the local nonprofit’s annual humanitarian awards. Carter, then 97, sent a signed note congratulating the honorees, ...