Just looking out the window, Lord, reminds me of a friend, How she felt bad to lose her Dad, told how his days did end. "I recall when Dad flopped on SNOW, made an 'Angel', for us; "We were amazing!

Like many funeral poems that give comfort to the grieving, Dickinson’s piece—and the final stanza, in particular—suggests the dead might live on in the afterlife. An icon of his time ...

When I was about 10 years old, a boy who attended my church died. His name was Antonio and we sang in the youth choir together. He drowned at Blue Lake Park on the 4th of July. I remember singing ...

Carmen Bugan’s books include a memoir, Burying the Typewriter: Childhood under the eye of the secret police (Picador) as well as several collections of poetry, including Lilies from America, New and ...

What about a book of poetry that reads like a novel ... to the doorstep of Enid—and later into the now widow’s grieving heart. Kanke crosses decades — from Enid’s birth in 1919 to her ...