Use these sympathy poems in cards, messages, texts, or other ways to support a grieving friend or family member. Turn to ...

Classic poets like W.H. Auden, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Emily Dickinson as well as newer, contemporary poets like Penelope Shuttle and Kevin Young have written powerful poems about losing a ...

Dear Ann Landers: I recently delivered a stillborn son. I have found that so many people don’t know how to react or what to say. Stillbirths occur much more often than people might think, and if ...

SHAFTSBURY >> TIME magazine's "Best of the Century" list published on New Year's Eve in 1999 ranked Robert Frost's poem, "Home Burial" number three, beat only by W.B. Yeats's "The Second Coming" and T ...

October 25, 2016 Poems that honor the postpartum body following loss ‘Don’t let them tell you that you’re not a mama’ ...

Young (Dear Darkness) is not only a prolific and acclaimed poet, but also the editor of several anthologies of poems, by African-American poets, inspired by the blues and jazz, and from the body ...

John Kenney has followed up Love Poems (for Married People) with Love Poems (for People with Children). It includes poems such as "3:32a.m. and I am sure the infant is taunting me" and "Baby wipes." ...