It’s been said that “To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving.” Truer words have never been spoken. This is the essence of Joanne Sherry ...

Palmetto Publishing presents a heartfelt exploration of love, hope, struggles, pain, and acceptance in this poignant ...

In 2020, Sah Pham was on a road trip with her mother through Vancouver Island. Along that journey, she recorded an audio piece about her mother’s passage across the ocean from Vietnam. Hear it again: ...

("What Happens" by Hilda Raz, Bison Books, University of Nebraska Press, 134 pages, $14.95). These are emotionally taut poems, created by the poet to share her self or, perhaps, her many selves with ...

Few poetry books may be more openly honest than Suzan E. Zan’s collection, "From Suffering to Salve: My Journey to Happiness" (Turtle Cove Press, 2021). Organized into three parts, the poetry ...

Another death. Another funeral.Another friend taken too early by that cruel, smarmy bastard – cancer.  Another person whose ...

If hope were an object, it would be poet Alex Dimitrov's new book Love and Other Poems. In its entirety, the book itself is one long love poem — to New York City, to the moon, to the many "scenes from ...

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. I return to Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet in every season of my life.

McCLOUD — Inmate Mary Hodges wrote “Not Being True to Self” in about 10 minutes, hunched over loose-leaf notebook paper a few inches from other prisoners in a cramped room. It had been an emotionally ...