Christopher de Vinck Recalls finding a poem written by his mother shortly after her death: May we all satisfy all love as we ...

"The whole speech of a dying man delivering justice is something that haunts the whole family to this day, 10 years later. It ...

Henry Taylor, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who drew on his upbringing in rural Northern Virginia — galloping on horseback, ...

Leonard Cohen's songs are poems, but not every poem he wrote became a song. These are a mix of some of his definitive works that define Cohen as a wordsmith.

Shuntaro Tanikawa, who pioneered modern Japanese poetry, poignant but conversational in its divergence from haiku and other traditions, has died. He was 92.

Anton Hur's debut novel ‘Toward Eternity’ explores love, memory, and humanity through nanotechnology and poetry in a ...

In 1922, T. S. Eliot released to the world his account of the Culture of Death in the form of a modernist poem of 434 lines.

Poets have been writing about death since the beginning of the written word, and it’s no wonder their poems often appear at funerals. Not only do funeral poems help people process the loss of a loved ...

You can’t escape a certain sound. You’ll hear the click-clack of typewriter keys and the sputter of a knob turning the rubber ...

His relative isolation from the bleakly serious scholarly poetry scene of postwar Japan likely helped him take his free-verse ...

Most people would prefer to die at home than in hospital. If dying at home could be made more feasible and well resourced, ...