When Saeed Jones was working on his new book of poems during the pandemic's lockdown phase, he learned something about grief — it doesn't end, it just changes with time.

The latest poetry collection from award-winning memoirist, essayist, and poet Saeed Jones delivers on its titular promise of a living, breathing read in the face of grief, loss, and apocalypse.

It's World Poetry Day: ... SAEED JONES: But for now, we are alive at the end of the world. FADEL: Poet and historian Jennifer Michael Hecht has been thinking of the power of poetry.

Louise Glück’s mode of lamentation was her signature, and it seems fitting that one of her poems occasions the end of this column, ... Luke Littler, the world’s best pro darts player, ...

With “Poem of the Day,” The New York Sun offers a daily portion of verse selected by Joseph Bottum with the help of the North Carolina poet Sally Thomas, the Sun’s associate poetry editor. Tied to the ...

The poem itself could be an entry. The speaker, a Black person, sees the world as a “fenced-off narrow space,” an unnecessarily walled place, and resolves to obliterate cruel boundaries.

Hanif Abdurraqib reflects on Octavia Butler, the Los Angeles fires, and the uses and misuses of the things that cannot be recovered.

Alive at the End of The World, the new poetry collection by Saeed Jones, reckons with continued living in the face of endless grief. Jeevika Verma | Posted on September 22, 2022, 5:04 AM.