Hear mother’s emotional poem read at the sentencing of her 17-year-old daughter’s killer (video)
The mother of 17-year-old Karlianne Short wrote a poem in memory of her daughter that was read Friday at the sentencing of ...
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The art of losing
In Jan Donley’s class at Berklee, her students study literature that centers on loss. Loss can make us sad, but it can also help us heal, Donley writes. In the wake of the 2024 presidential election, ...
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Dear Reader—Reaching Toward Community in a Time of Winter
When I began to listen to poetry, it’s when I began to listen to the stones, and I began to listen to what the clouds had to say, and I began to listen to others. And I think, most importantly for all ...
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The Mortal Reader: Poetry to soothe the weary soul
The staff of Chapter One Book Store share books we love, books that bent our minds, books that illuminated our souls and the ...
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“Come Shelter Me in This Distant Country”: Homelands in Selim Temo’s Nightlands
"These poems are laden with grief, but also ... In “the clouds woke once,” the speaker says: “my heart my heart my heart; one name of yours is lament, one mourn / you are fevered, flushed, pale / come ...
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Sally Read tackles an impossible task with ‘100 Great Catholic Poems’
Any anthology is a product of its editor’s decisions. In “ 100 Great Catholic Poems ” (Word on Fire, $34.95), editor Sally ...