In this poem, the speaker grapples with the grief of losing a father who was missing while alive, but in death feels omnipresent. The heart of the poem lies in the questions and possibility ...

The father-to-be took to poetry to share his grief with the world. More from CafeMom: Surviving the Grief That Swallowed Me Whole After My Miscarriage Was Beyond Hard The couple knew they wanted a ...

There, she tends to memory as much as to soil. The poem is elegant in its restraint, exploring the speaker’s grief over her father’s death through the sensory language of a garden. Tonally ...

Within these, perhaps the profoundest of all is grief — the devastation, the frantic feeling of panic, and the unbearable pain that comes when we lose someone we love. When we struggle to find words ...

No, because creating poems out of the ruins of the grief is a vital act, it gives an architecture to our experiences, shining forth a light of hope to the people and places where it is still dark.

Tareen, a young poet from Kashmir, isn't here to dazzle. His verses are often delicate, always sincere. There's no posturing.

Winter begins tonight, and with the Solstice and a change in the seasons, we invited Vermont poet David Crews to share his thoughts and a poem. Dec 21, 2023 — Winter begins tonight, and with the ...