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This week's poem, popularly known as "Tichborne's Elegy", was written either by a terrorist or a Christian martyr, depending on your point of view. Chidiock Tichborne was born into a devout Catholic ...

From Charlotte Brontë grieving Emily to Ted Hughes lamenting a lamb, this exceptional anthology of poems is full of scholarly discernment This is a tremendous sentimental education of a book – a ...

To put a death mask on tragedy, A drape on the mirror. But couldn’t make less. Not then, not soon. Each day, a new caption on the cartoon Ending that simply cannot be. One hears repeatedly, the role ...

Once, years ago, I visited the home of a family whose son had died in childhood, and watched a video tribute the parents had made to the life of their child. Weeping, I resolved not to buy a camcorder ...

This poem explores all the distances between mothers and their children, the frayed seams between countries and cultures. It is also a poem of love and understanding, as if love is a way to the ...

Natasha Trethewey was named the 19th Poet Laureate of the United States in June, becoming the first Southerner to receive the honor since Robert Penn Warren, in 1986, and the first African-American ...

my back to where I know we are headed. Natasha Trethewey was named U.S. Poet Laureate earlier this year. She has written four collections of poetry: “Thrall,” “Domestic Work,” “Bellocq’s Ophelia” and ...