Poems anchored me as I lost my son, so I shared them Sunday, May 28, 2023 4:00 AM. Josie Glausiusz.

Today’s poem, “Upon my Son Samuel,” written in tetrameter couplets, imagines its speaker as a sort of latter-day Hannah, the Old Testament mother who, after praying for a child, relinquishes her son, ...

Doris Hernández began to write poetry as a way to cope with the loss of her son who was shot in 2012 in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood, on May 9, 2024. (Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune) ...

Shortly after my son Seth’s death eight years ago, I discovered a gift he gave me. It was the gift of poetry. I don’t mean that I found a poem Seth had written or learned that poetry was an ...

The poem rhetorically and emotionally zigzags, too, between statements and questions. The title is repeated in the first line with an anaphora of “The son I’ll never have,” adding immediate ...

Among these, for me, is Ben Jonson's poem “On My First Son.” For me, the poem represents one of the most moving uses of a name — for each of us our own name, in a way, the word most ...

The following is a poem by Professor Judea Pearl, originally published on the 10th anniversary of his son Daniel Pearl’s death. On February 1, 2002, the 38-year-old journalist was murdered by ...

Final Poem for My Father Misnamed In My Mouth. By Phillip B. Williams. Sunlight still holds you and gives your shapelessness to every room. By noon, the kitchen catches your hands, misshapen ...