Sometimes it's hard to put loss into words, but poems about losing a loved one can help you comfort a friend, family member, ...

My husband Gary and I met when we were 9 and 10 years old. We became closer later, when we were 14 and 16 years old, and ...

berries—and in the dominant emotion of these poems: joy. Here, even death is transformed into the syrupy juice of a stone fruit dripping down a chin. Gay describes sprinkling his father’s ...