When grief seems impossible to express, let the literary greats lend a helping hand and provide some much-needed comfort with ...

When there's a eulogy to be written and read, poet Andy Jackson ... idea of attending "lonely funerals" after speaking to a writer from the Netherlands during a poetry festival in St Andrews.

Where to read: You can read “The Haunted Palace” at Poetry Foundation ... joyous pealing of wedding bells to the somber toll of funeral chimes, and brilliantly explains what each of these ...

Read the poem in its entirety ... The narrator comforts a grieving loved one (making this a good funeral poem), assuring them that they are not alone and that love will heal them.

If that’s you today, then give these beautiful and moving poems, selected by women including Judi Dench, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Elena Ferrante, a read. Judi Dench, Yoko Ono, Chimamanda ...

Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition?

Auden’s poetry here illustrates the trickle-down effect of poorly thought-out decisions of politicians and rulers, and how ...

When reading poetry a reader will interpret what it means to them. Everyone's response is different. What is imagery? Learn about how writers use imagery, the impact of imagery and how it appeals ...

Destiny Hemphill, poet and writer of poem collection "Motherland," visited NC State to do a reading of the collection.

Celebrated poet Jessica Mbangeni is being laid to rest today in her hometown of Ngqamakhwe in the Eastern Cape.

William Shakespeare is the bestselling poet of all time. The word 'poetry' is from the Greek term poiesis, which means 'making'. The oldest written poem is the Epic of Gilgamesh originating from ...