Release your emotions, cry a little, and then heal. Poetry is all about sharing feelings and emotion and is one of the greatest forms of literature to read during hard times. Poems about death can ...

A memorial for Sarah Pliner, erected on a traffic pole on the southeast corner of SE 26th and Powell Blvd. (Photos: Jonathan Maus/BikePortland) One year ago this week, 50-year-old Portland chef Sarah ...

Months before Andrea Gibson, Colorado's renowned poet laurate, died of terminal ovarian cancer, they sat down for their final television interview on an episode of NBC Chicago's "It's OK to Ask ...

The death of Queen Elizabeth II revealed much about the state of the British bourgeoisie’s institutions. It also shed light on their impact on cultural life. Artists have been fawning over the late ...

The poet Ocean Vuong says two years after he lost his mother to cancer, he was feeling "smug in [his] healing" — when the worst moment came. "One day, I woke up in the middle of the night, two in the ...