Acclaimed San Antonio writer Naomi Shihab Nye talks about the “clarifying” power of poetry and why it’s needed in turbulent ...

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, ...

Did you make it? Tell me, Love, are you in the quiet yet?

Poetry lovers who crave Shakespearean-style sonnets and rhyming iambic pentameter have a new collection to pick up for their reading pleasure: Last Night in Eden by J. Harold Ryder. A sincere and ...

The staff of Chapter One Book Store share books we love, books that bent our minds, books that illuminated our souls and the ...

"These poems are laden with grief, but also, to my ears, carry a tremendous love and hope, without which, surely, there could be no endurance," writes critic Mandana Chaffa. With members across ...

If I Must Die' compiles poems, excerpts of blogs, lectures and interviews as a celebration of Refaat Alareer’s legacy and ...

You can use a statement of death or a death certificate as proof of death. The statement of death is sufficient in most situations to notify the federal government of a death. A death certificate is ...

“Fear Death by Water” is a line from the celebrated long form poem The Waste Land by TS Eliot. Could the novel feature a ...

She wrote lovingly and often hilariously about her harrowing childhood in a working-class Southern family, as well as about the violence and incest she suffered.

As a patient with chronic lymphocytic leukemia, I recently gleaned three new insights from my oncologist and phlebotomist.

Victor and Cheryl come unstuck when they try to imagine what happened after Sarah's death. The indignity of it all is still too hard to believe. Sarah Gatt's body was discovered by police on ...