Death, according to the poet and critic William Empson, is “the trigger of the literary man’s biggest gun”. In fact, death is ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I have slept in many places, for years on mattresses that entered,” by Diane Seuss, and his own poem “This Is a Test of the Federal Emergency ...

This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. The couple were found dead in their home on Feb. 26. Hackman's death was tied to heart disease with Alzheimer's disease ...

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And if you ask me how, I do not know. I only feel it, and I’m torn in two. Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness ...

So, if you’re looking for the perfect words for your loved one this year, why not share one of these poems, which attempt to express the wonder and complexities of romantic love. If you make a ...

Vanishing Daughters, written in the wake of her father’s death, is a novel about living through grief. For Chicago novelist ...