It still feels kind of incomplete,” said someone who lost several family friends. “It doesn’t feel like there is that closure on any of it.” ...

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips.

While doing some house cleaning, I came across a column of yours that I had clipped and tucked away. On one of the pages I ...

Historically, poets have had less to say about pandemics than you might imagine. Hardly any English-language poetry written ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with author Reginald Dwayne Betts about his new collection of poems, "Doggerel," a meditation on ...

Quad-Cities poet Aubrey Barnes will release his fourth poetry collection April 11. The collection includes poems on the dark ...

Death is a universal fact of life but everyone grieves differently. Advice columnist Carolyn Hax has answered questions about ...

February: frank: sonnets and Modern Poetry by Diane Seuss Alongside Terrance Hayes, Diane Seuss has a strong case to be considered as the most influential American poet of the last 10 years. A ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I have slept in many places, for years on mattresses that entered,” by Diane Seuss, and his own poem “This Is a Test of the Federal Emergency ...

Naomi Ackie spent her 20s in a “fog” of grief after her mother’s death. The emotional journey has profoundly shaped her outlook on life and career choices, according to mental health experts ...

For this Poetry Project, we asked Robin Coste Lewis ... as might an unforgiven betrayal. She was a constellation of grief, Tahlequah the orca mother, hauling & prodding & willing the holy baby body ...