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 ...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha is mourning the death of noted Odia poet and former bureaucrat Ramakanta Rath, who breathed his last at ...

Alfaguara publishes the 'Complete Poetry' of the Argentine writer, a corpus that he kept almost hidden during his lifetime, now adding the unpublished book 'Fable of Death', written in 1941, and 23 ...

George Szirtes remembers Martin Bell, whom he met as a student, and his ‘Collected Poems’ that glitter with laughter and ...

Author Lisa C. Taylor discusses how the awareness of our mortality can animate our writing and improve our lives.

Author, poet, and philosopher David Whyte reflects on the power of words and explores why accepting and celebrating the human ...

He is struck on a road just outside Damascus, and his life is readjusted. He then is the recipient of hardship: the Lord will ...

Forget those funny roses-are-red poems and start with one of the English language’s literary giants. Published posthumously in 1890, “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” is arguably one of ...