It's been a difficult year for many people. NPR's Elissa Nadworny talks with poet Danez Smith about using poetry to understand and process complex emotions like grief.

Grief In Greenness: Two Melancholy Poems Of Spring Some of the best poets of spring are masters of the minor key. ... In the deep bare garden, ... in short, to draw a new circle." ...

Claude McKay's poems offer rich layers of meaning, reflecting the struggles, triumphs, and complexities of the Black ...

Like many I spent yesterday morning reading everything I could about the 49 people who were killed at Pulse in Orlando, Florida. Reading about the grieving family members. Reading about the killer.

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 h… ...

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 ...

After her parents fell ill, Victoria Chang, finalist for a Times Book Prize, wrote 'Obit,' poems styled as obituaries of loved ones — and herself.

Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling. This week’s Deep Water poem is the final poem in the final book of beloved poet Lee Sharkey, who passed away last year. Written by a woman ...

You’re reading the Today’s Opinions newsletter. Sign up to get it in your inbox. In today’s edition: “Boats of mercy / embark from / our heart at the / oddest knock,” reads the poem ...