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.

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.

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.

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 ...

Claude McKay, one of the most influential figures in the Harlem Renaissance, left behind a rich collection of poetry that ...

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 ...

When wracked with grief, my best poems showed up. And when I felt overtaken by love, ... Here are 6 best short love poems to nourish your heart and soul: 1. "You are okay, friend ...