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 ...

In Borzutzky’s poem, living poems emerge from the dead, too, and without these poems, “the dead are assassinated.” Beginning with the chilling abstractions of the dealers of death, “Poem ...

‘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 ...