Dear Abby: In response to the letter from a postal worker in Cottage Grove, Minn., regarding the tragic loss of children in the Oklahoma City explosion: Five years ago, on the same date that letter… ...

Shane Koyczan says in a childhood full of the pain of bullying, he discovered a sense of humor and more. ... His poem has been viewed more than 8 million times on YouTube.

The collection titled ‘Seen & Heard’, comprises 100 poems and a series of drawings, created by children and parents from across the UK and beyond whose lives have been impacted by imprisonment.

Love has certainly been painful for Mitchell. The poems found in this collection reveal a heart-wrenching portrait of Mitchell’s life: a cheating husband, distant lovers, lost family, sick children.

Children took center stage in many poems. A woman had pledged to make her son feel special each time he walked into a room. “Because of my drugs, I could not let him feel that way.

A version of this story ran in the January / February 2025 issue. Write about the untouchable. Something out of arm’s reach, like freedom, the stars, or you. Write an ode to misfits. A poem of ...

Shaping the Fractured Self: poetry of chronic illness and pain, edited by Heather Taylor Johnson, UWAP (www.uwap.com.au), 2017, 227pp, rrp $29.99 AUD isbn 9781742589312 Pain Poetry ...

“To This Day” had a very small beginning. The poem itself was written in 2009 after rereading a series of notebooks I had written in as a child. I’m fortunate enough to have a grandmother ...

A heartbreaking set of published poems reveal the strain on children of having a parent behind bars. The collection titled ‘Seen & Heard’, comprises 100 poems and a series of drawings, created ...

Poems ease the pain of long incarceration. Ginnie Graham ... Children took center stage in many poems. A woman had pledged to make her son feel special each time he walked into a room.