That's the title of one of Nicole Sealey's many poems about life, death and the search for meaning in her debut poetry collection, "Ordinary Beast." (It is also the final line of a famous 1942 ...

Release your emotions, cry a little, and then heal. Poetry is all about sharing feelings and emotion and is one of the greatest forms of literature to read during hard times. Poems about death can ...

We’ve had poets before who wrote little poetry. The short-lived Chidiock Tichborne, for example, and other minor poets who managed a single memorable poem. Or T.S. Eliot and Philip Larkin, who kept a ...

Minneapolis poet laureate Junauda Petrus was reading her poem “Ritual on How to Love Minneapolis Again” to students in a south Minneapolis grade school classroom in October when an impatient voice ...

The death of Queen Elizabeth II revealed much about the state of the British bourgeoisie’s institutions. It also shed light on their impact on cultural life. Artists have been fawning over the late ...