Sometimes it's hard to put loss into words, but poems about losing a loved one can help you comfort a friend, family member, or acquaintance that has just lost someone close. Poems can also validate ...

Queen Elizabeth II herself famously said, "grief is the price we pay for love". It’s a beautiful and true statement, but it ...

The poet Ocean Vuong says two years after he lost his mother to cancer, he was feeling "smug in [his] healing" — when the worst moment came. "One day, I woke up in the middle of the night, two in the ...

The Unbound Book Festival is happening in Columbia this weekend and KBIA has been speaking with some of this year’s featured authors. Brian Turner is a poet, essayist and musician. Last year, he ...

As resolutely canonical as they seem to us now, the “Holy Sonnets” of John Donne (1572–1631) flicker with some uncertainty in the imaginary museum hall of English literature. We think we know them.

"Is this the right time for that?" "Emily's name isn't Rachel" "What time should we leave for the airport?" "Would it be possible to stop volunteering me for things?" And now, he's followed it up with ...

U.S. writer John Updike's death made headlines, but in a “Requiem,” a new poem due to be published later this year, he mused about his overdue demise” being received with “a shrug and tearless eyes.” ...

American poet Emily Dickinson. A mystical recluse, she lived all her life in Amherst, Massachusetts. Emily Dickinson was a 19th-century American poet whose name has become synonymous with classic ...

John Kenney says his poetry — a term he uses loosely — is poetry in the same sense that "Arby's is farm-to-table dining." His new collection is called Love Poems (for People with Children). "What time ...