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After her parents fell ill, Victoria Chang, finalist for a Times Book Prize, wrote 'Obit,' poems styled as obituaries of loved ones — and herself.

Poem: Grieving abroad Longtime contributor Amina Hasan explores the cycles of grieving. ... This is how people grieve when they’re alone. It might last for a day, month, or many years.

‘Knotted Grief’: Poetry on shared and private griefs show how sorrow can be an essential life force ... yet he is the only one who can recount the griefs of his people to posterity.

Grieving friend offers poem from funeral. Staff Writer. ... The church was packed to overflowing at her funeral, and I want to know where these people were the last two years.

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.

Poetry Jun 29, 2015 5:47 PM EDT Dan Chelotti’s poem “Grieving in the Modern World,” was published in his first book of poetry, “x,” published by McSweeney’s .

Thought at first that grief had brought him down. His wife dead, his own hand dug the grave under a willow oak, in family ground — he got home sick, was dead when morning came.