I researched poetry written during COVID. Five years on, here's how people say it helped them
Historically, poets have had less to say about pandemics than you might imagine. Hardly any English-language poetry written ...
They Lost Someone to Covid. Here’s What They Learned About Grief.
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.” ...
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Reginald Dwayne Betts discusses his new collection of poems, 'Doggerel'
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with author Reginald Dwayne Betts about his new collection of poems, "Doggerel," a meditation on ...
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On to State Finals
Freshman Elli Harju of CLK High School will participate in the 2025 Poetry Out Loud State Finals Saturday in Lansing. The ...
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Composition and decomposition: DLCL’s symposium dissects poetry and poetics
The event featured a reading by poet and lecturer Cintia Santana, as well as brief presentations by a panel of graduate ...
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Rock Island poet: New collection is ‘an honest reflection of losing a sibling'
Quad-Cities poet Aubrey Barnes will release his fourth poetry collection April 11. The collection includes poems on the dark stretches of grief after the death of his brother.
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Commentary: How can Israelis and Palestinians make peace? Reading each other’s poetry is a good start
Homer wrote about the Trojan War; Alfred Lord Tennyson, the Crimean War; Walt Whitman, the Civil War; Wilfred Owen, World War ...
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Some Cultures Are Better At Death — Here’s What They Can Teach Us About Grieving
She says: “Grief often feels uncomfortable in our culture ... As a family, we were provided with some ‘standard’ poems to be read at the funeral and while I read through them, I thought ...
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Tallahassee writer launches poetry collection about grandmother
What about a book of poetry that reads like a novel ... to the doorstep of Enid—and later into the now widow’s grieving heart. Kanke crosses decades — from Enid’s birth in 1919 to her ...