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My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Constance (Connie) Levy, who lives in St. Louis in a neighborhood of trees, ...
Why Some Blamed Poetry for Sylvia Plath’s Death 3 minute read A photograph of Sylvia Plath (1932 - 1963) on her grave at St Thomas a Beckett churchyard, Heptonstall, West Yorkshire, May 5, 2011.
One year later, the impact of Pliner’s death continues to linger in the minds of many — especially Brooke, who returned to the corner last week to post another poem. Brooke put the pages of the poem ...
I’m a 43-year-old lapsed Catholic who has doubts about any kind of afterlife, let alone a magical pet bridge. And yet, in that awful day when I put down my best friend, and in the weeks that ...
Gazan literature professor Refaat Alareer shared a poem titled “If I Must Die” weeks before he was killed. Actor Brian Cox of HBO’s “Succession” read it as a tribute.
“A Hundred Doors” is filled with love poems: for Longley’s wife, for his friends and family, for beauty, for the world itself. Some are elegies, and most are touched by death.
Clipp’s friends and family, including 15-year-old daughter Braelyn, fill the stands. The final scene in the video shows Clipp’s truck driving down a gravel lane. It’s his son behind the wheel.
Poem: An Elegy on Behalf of Your Friend A poem from Century High School alumna Amina Hasan. Image by cromaconceptovisual from Pixabay. ... But elegies seem to be for the living, not the dead.
Johnny Tillotson, the singer-songwriter behind the 1960s hit "Poetry in Motion," died on April 1. Tillotson's wife of 45 years, Nancy, confirmed the news on social media.
'Poetry Man' Singer Phoebe Snow Dies At 58 : The Two-Way She was 58. A friend says the cause of death was complications from a brain hemorrhage she suffered in January 2010.
Aziza Barnes, who wrote for shows including A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and Snowfall, has died. They were 32. Barnes, who used they/them pronouns and was known to their friends as Z, died by ...
A Christian man has been sentenced to death in Pakistan for insulting the Prophet Muhammad, his lawyer has said. Nadeem James, 35, was said to have committed blasphemy in a poem he sent to a ...