As part of the Poetry Coalition’s programming, the Academy of American Poets asked five renowned poets to reflect on poems that helped them better understand or process grief.
Poets reflected on loss, abandonment, heartbreak, and more in this series of micro-essays.
The seventh annual programming initiative’s theme “and so much lost you’d think / beauty had left a lesson: Poetry & Grief,” is from the poem “once the magnolia has blossomed” by Ed Roberson.
Poetry & Grief: On “Greensickness” by Laurel Chen
As part of the Poetry Coalition’s programming, the Academy of Am
Poetry & Grief: On “That This” by Susan Howe
As part of the Poetry Coalition’s programming, the Academy of Am
Poetry & Grief: On “There, There, Grieving” by Zeina Hashem Beck
As part of the Poetry Coalition’s programming, the Academy of Am
Poetry & Grief: On “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden
As part of the Poetry Coalition’s programming, the Academy of Am
Poetry & Grief: Andrea Cohen on “Les Cloches” (“The Bells”) by Guillaume Apollinaire
As part of the Poetry Coalition’s programming, the Academy of Am