This selection is from Averno, a collection by Louise Gluck that mines the ancient myth of Persephone for the light that it sheds on the experience of death and dying. To mark National Poetry ...

In her poem “The Pomegranate”, Eavan Boland imagines her younger self as Persephone wandering through unknown worlds, before she becomes Demeter watching her own daughter grow up.

In Death of Persephone, award-winning poet Yvonne Blomer ... to have her even as she blooms out from underneath him. In poems both lyrical and narrative, a woman paints Hecate on a building ...