I also turn to poetry in times of joy). I started writing the poems that would turn into my book, "I Carry My Mother," almost immediately as a way to comfort myself and to keep my mother ...

Author, poet, and philosopher David Whyte reflects on the power of words and explores why accepting and celebrating the human ...

Yet this abundant joy seems always tempered by that constant reminder of time and mortality so prevalent in McDonald’s poetry. Youthful revelry and celebration are balanced in these poems by ...