Debut author Lauren Griffin ties together the themes of heartache, treasured memories and healing in her poetry collection ...
April is National Poetry Month. In the midst of a pandemic, this year’s celebrations have either been suspended, or the organizers have become more creative in their planning. Where most towns across ...
A new public art project will install poems across Philadelphia's Germantown neighborhood — written by residents processing ...
A tear. Then tears. Then nothing. Then tears. This is how people grieve when they’re alone. It might last for a day, month, or many years. Feelings might be hidden or slightly shown. They cry even for ...
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The System Eats Our People - a Poem of Grief and Rage
Dr Ebere Okereke wrote this poem in the wake of several deaths close to her, each painful and, in important ways, avoidable. They did not arise from one isolated failure. They reflected a chain of ...
The idea for my book, The Last Poem, started while I was listening. At an event hosted for me in New York, people had gathered for a casual afternoon, less sit-down, more mingle. Small clusters of ...
Darlene Wilson-Bennett's life is like a "book with many missing pages" — torn out the day her son, Justin, was fatally shot ...
If you're writing nature poetry today, you are engaging in crisis. … What's the mood of hope, and what's the emotional ...
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