A spoken-word poet, Rodgers said she hoped to make poetry accessible and relevant to all Nebraskans, including by using other ...

The writer spent his life cultivating beauty—on the page and in the mirror—only to end it with a samurai-style suicide. Both ...

In reading and thinking about Best Canadian Essays 2025, edited by Emily Urquhart, I sought not only to understand Urquhart’s ...

Evan Freemyer writes that he penned this poem "to express the shock, alienation, and grief that I felt" after a principal and ...

David Groff, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and educator, discusses the need for poets to embrace entrepreneurial ...

In her book, Genene Hibbler uses a hurricane as an analogy for the emotions people experience when dealing with the loss of a loved one.

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While the poem celebrates Giovanni's memories of Knoxville and her adolescence, it also mourns both the loss of her grandfather and the loss ... on civil rights era TV program "Soul!" Following the ...

These poems address the loss of her mother as well as the forced ... the Old Bowling Alley Lot Is Still Empty” focus on the mother’s death. Here, the form of the three poems, free verse ...

A 12-year-old girl has appeared in court charged with manslaughter following the death of an 80-year-old grandfather. Bhim Kohli died from serious injuries he suffered while walking his dog in ...

29 while in Egypt tearful grieving years after a death is considered healthy.30 That there is a hierarchy in grief is also a common view. This could reflect societal efforts to control or ...