One of the great New Orleans-produced poets, Nicole Cooley is a master of the narratively themed collection. “The Afflicted Girls,” her 2004 volume about the Salem Witch Trials, is an unsung gem of a ...

Hearts are still heavy following the horrific New Year’s Day attack in New Orleans. On Friday, the youngest of the 14 victims ...

KB Ballentine has released a new book of poetry, All The Way Through. A book launch will be held Wednesday, Jan. 22, at 6:30 p.m., at the Soddy Daisy Community Library, 9619 Dayton Pike. Review for ...

If the Booker Prize is “posh bingo”, the TS Eliot Prize is the Cinderella Booker – the annual ball where poets descend from ...

Jeni Stepanek’s son Mattie had forged a bond with Carter in 2001, days before he was supposed to die. Mattie had said one of ...

Three more flew off, they left last week, but they were not from here. Their folks had friends who live nearby -they visited each year. One had turned three, a little girl; she smiled as she 'flew off ...

A killer whale mother who carried her dead calf for 17 days in an apparent show of grief has given birth to a new calf, scientists have said. The orca, named Tahlequah and known to researchers as ...

MI5 has released a special version of the festive poem The night before Christmas, read by actor Gary Oldman. In the voice over, Oldman reprises the role of his Slow Horses character Jackson Lamb ...

This is the first time I’ll be alone for the holidays. For 45 years, I was married to the love of my life, Steve. As handsome as a film star and loaded with business smarts and common sense, he was my ...

There’s a grief in that. JT: In your poem, “Revitalization Efforts: The Mill,” the mill has been “a scrap lot / and flea market”—like the Marden’s in the old Hathaway of your memory.

And that’s why I don’t photograph the poems or do anything with them on social media — because some people will share relationship stuff, heartbreak, grief, death and loss, right relationship/wrong ...