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 ...

In 1991, following the sudden death of his first wife, Susan, Mike Bernhardt began writing poetry as a way to deal with his grief. In the poem “Sunday,” he writes, “Together, we survived the ...

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 ...

Winter begins tonight, and with the Solstice and a change in the seasons, we invited Vermont poet David Crews to share his thoughts and a poem. Dec 21, 2023 — Winter begins tonight, and with the ...

(CBS4) – Kiya Cockrell thought she was headed to Washington D.C. to represent Colorado in the national Poetry Out Loud competition when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Now she's had to graduate virtually ...

How great my grief, my joys how few, Since first it was my fate to know thee? With “Poem of the Day,” The New York Sun offers a daily portion of verse selected by the Sun’s poetry editor, Joseph ...

In “Kyrie,” these sonnets published way back in 1995, before I knew poetry or prison, Ellen Bryant Voigt reminds us that there have been pandemics before. There has been that absurd accumulation of ...

Three new collections by mid-career poets lay claim to stories of identity, suffering and hope, to a kind of collective ...

Just read about a gal who died – she lived way out of state! It mentioned that she was quite old but didn't give birthdate. A ...