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.

Climate fiction author Deborah Tomkins picks five novels that focus on the growing phenomenon of climate grief.

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

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 ...

2. Brief Poem of Love and Devotion. Your hugs are my refuge, and your kisses, my reason. Without you, my life is empty, with ...

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 ...

Short Bio: Batool Abu Akleen is a Palestinian poet and painter whose work transcends borders.At 15, she won the Barjeel Prize for her poignant poem I Didn’t Steal the Cloud. Displaced from Gaza ...

Hi, Carolyn: I'm in the middle of a messy divorce, six months after my son — conceived after years of IVF — died at birth. I've also just started a new job with a lot more responsibility, and ...

Poet and author Stephanie Oakey debuts her first book, Poems of a Southern Nobody, a collection of over 60 poems that explores the kinship between nature, people, and time.She paints a vivid ...

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.