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

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 ...

I remember well the first time I entered a poem in a competition, writes Abigail Price, a funeral celebrant at Shoobridge ...

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.

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?

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.

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

Funerals are never easy, but mourners have a habit of making things awkward — to the point where these solemn occasions can become unintentionally hilarious. A simple question asked on a popular ...

Educators are conscious of the value of exposing students to great works of poetry, but the teaching of poetry often lacks a ...

The Long Island man allegedly shot to death alongside his girlfriend by her jealous ex-husband was remembered at his Tuesday funeral as someone ... I have written you three poems before / each ...

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