in short, to draw a new circle." Or, one might say, to see another spring arrive, in all its ambiguous glory. David Orr writes about poetry for NPR Books and other publications. His most recent ...

How can I focus my sight so that I'm seeing who you are now and who we are together and maybe to deal with some of the, you know, deep ... short little poem, I think, does a lot to make room for ...

While these poems won't offer easy answers to grief, they will keep the kind of company that only poetry can, because only poetry can convincingly say, as Ruth Stone does in the last poem of this ...

With words from the heart, poems and a stirring photo, people yesterday began sharing on the Internet their memories and thoughts about 9/11 with us – and with generations to come. A sister ...

When I did not feel understood in the world, I wrote. When wracked with grief, my best poems showed up. And when I felt overtaken by love, I just couldn’t stop the flow, even while driving a car.

The father-to-be took to poetry to share his grief with the world ... Their excitement was short-lived. At Porsha's nine-week scan, the couple learned their baby's heart had stopped beating ...

The poems stand face-to-face with grief — for her father (the late Karl Case, an eminent Wellesley economics professor), for a lost love — and looks into its bottomless eye with tenderness and ...