There is a poem by Diane Seuss that begins, “Jesus wept and so did Rowena Lee,” and what follows is the kind of buildup of living and suffering and what happens as it all goes down that ...

Poem entitled 'Remember Me' by BBC Open Centre, Hull. ... I heard my comrade shout 'It's Frank' before my living world went blank. My time had come, my fight was done, I knew not ...

Readers of The New York Sun, attentive as always, will remember Ben Jonson (1572–1637), whose “To Celia” appeared as Poem of the Day this past June 13, as both a contemporary of Shakespeare and, being ...

You might remember this poem from the 1989 film Dead Poets Society, in which Robin Williams’s character recites the final two ...

Morning Edition asked readers to submit poems in the form of letters, addressed to anyone. NPR poet-in-residence Kwame Alexander drew from the more than 600 responses to create a community poem.

You’re forever safe with me. Rick Lupert , a poet, songleader and graphic designer, is the author of 28 books including “God Wrestler: A Poem for Every Torah Portion.” Visit him at www ...

Ada Limón Makes Poems for a Living On tour for her sixth book, Limón talks about how poetry, in the end, is “just telling somebody something.” Listen to her read some of her work.

In the Middle Ages, however, the Timor Mortis poem most often took the form of a sermon on the brevity of life and the necessity of living it well, in order to die well. In today’s poem, dating from ...

Christopher de Vinck recalls a poem written by his mother shortly after her death: "Her poem did not heal my ache the day she died. Death is not a physician, but the hands of our mothers who love ...