Seamus Heaney Fellow, Fiona Benson, has chosen her shortlist of four for this year’s Moth Poetry Prize, and commended a ...

Arian Katsimbras’ debut poetry collection, The Wonder Years, published in 2023, details his harrowing, lonely, beautiful childhood in Washoe Valley.

Historically, poets have had less to say about pandemics than you might imagine. Hardly any English-language poetry written ...

Ditlevsen, however, once wrote that she did much of her best work in poetry. There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die, the first English translation of those poems, starts with selections ...

Coping with loneliness can be difficult, with older adults more likely to be affected. Here's how you can try and find a community. Jessica was a writer on the Wellness team, with a focus on ...

This poem feels like anticipatory mourning as well as words of comfort for his friend’s lonely journey. I talked about “Waldeinsamkeit” with poet Stu Waton, the editor of Prelude magazine and a ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I have slept in many places, for years on mattresses that entered,” by Diane Seuss, and his own poem “This Is a Test of the Federal Emergency ...

Sometimes seen as the stuff of commencement addresses, his poems are hard to pin down—just like the man behind them.

In scintillating poems like “the devil you know,” these ... the feelings of alienation coursing through our society. Amid a loneliness crisis and the decline of physical third spaces in ...

Their poems are part of world history and culture. Poets should and must document the destruction and horrors of war. But can poetry ameliorate a war or hasten a peaceful resolution? Perhaps ...

The music sounds like loneliness and hope. There’s a hint of ’90s indie pop, too, with shades of Dolores O’Riordan — or maybe it’s just defiance — in Gilmore’s voice. (Set and ...

It can be challenging to come out of the feeling of loneliness. After all, it has nothing to do with having people around. Feeling left out can result from heartbreak, a loved one going away, moving ...