For all its agonies and loneliness, grief continually asserts itself as a creative force.

I’ve been part of different slam scenes for the past 20 years. I’ve seen a lot of bad slam poetry. I’ve performed a lot of ...

Peter Godwin, who has seen death up close a few times over the course of his life, examines grief and belonging in a new ...

Researchers are new to studying the implications of poetry for well-being and the brain. Still, it may surprise you “what a poem could do…,” how poetry changes our brains, and what you might get out ...

When my father was living his last years in a nursing facility, there was a woman there who spoke no English. I don’t know ...

Like Tom, I have experienced some “waves of grief.” ...

Kelly and her family use humor to cope with their grief. At Griffith's house on the day of his death, Kelly remembers ...

Carl Perkins wrote a song from the heart that inadvertently helped Paul McCartney process John Lennon's death.

Joy Harjo, the first Native American Poet Laureate in the U.S., is releasing two illustrative books this month, centered ...