Poems about death can help comfort you after losing a loved one. We are driven to find release and comfort from other people's stories about the same experience.

Alfaguara publishes the 'Complete Poetry' of the Argentine writer, a corpus that he kept almost hidden during his lifetime, ...

With “Poem of the Day,” The New York Sun offers a daily portion of verse selected by Joseph Bottum with the help of the North Carolina poet Sally Thomas, the Sun’s associate poetry editor. Tied to the ...

Marcellus ‘Khaliifah’ Williams, a Missouri death row prisoner, writes poetry to express himself, including one calling for his exoneration.

‘90% of the Poems Here Are About Death’: Ukraine Grieves a Poet-Soldier Maksym Kryvtsov's verses connected people with the front lines. Last month, he was killed in battle.

Proclaimed the time was neither. wrong nor right. I have been one acquainted with the. night. In discussing such poems it has become a commonplace to say, as W. H. Auden does, that Frost’s style ...

As we noted earlier this year, when Gray’s “On the Death of Richard West” was the Sun’s Poem of the Day, it’s impossible to think of a truly comparable poet in English. Of course, a writer is cut ...