Months before Andrea Gibson, Colorado’s renowned poet laurate died of terminal ovarian cancer, they sat down for their final ...

Translated by Rachel Tzvia Back All this suffering all the sorrow all this suffering and sorrow in vain all the fear-clenched mothers their eyes disheveled all this sane madness in vain in vain ...

When my father was living his last years in a nursing facility, there was a woman there who spoke no English. I don’t know how she got there, or anything ...

Dr. Galen M. Grant is a retired Army psychologist who has worked with many servicemembers and veterans experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and suicidal behavior. His poem below ...

Few poetry books may be more openly honest than Suzan E. Zan’s collection, "From Suffering to Salve: My Journey to Happiness" (Turtle Cove Press, 2021). Organized into three parts, the poetry ...

In the introduction to his impishly profound new collection of poems, Thomas Lynch recalls that when he finished writing the first handful, he “field-tested them at Joe’s Star Lounge on North ...

"Poetry of Witness" is written by poets who endured conditions of extremity, who passed through the suffering of warfare, imprisonment, forced exile, censorship, banning orders. They passed ...

Each of these ten poems represents a different facet of Maya Angelou’s genius as a poet and her ability to inspire readers to reflect on their own lives. Whether addressing themes of resilience ...

Poem Without Suffering Josef Kaplan. Wonder (SPD, dist.), $13.95 trade paper (96p) ISBN 978-0-9895985-5-2. Kaplan follows his controversial conceptual work, Kill List, with an accomplished ...