Twinning Grief And Hope, A Poet Softens Pain's Sharp Edge The Book of Hours, Kevin Young's eighth collection, tracks the emotional extremes of a father's death and a son's birth.The poems present ...

Ellen Brown Harrison’s new book of poetry, High Notes of Poetry: Finding Your Courage, offers hope and strength to people facing life’s toughest challenges. After the loss of her father, Ellen ...

When I grieve the state of the church or the world, I hear him reminding us that grief is holy — and that hope is never naïve when it is rooted in the God of both Exodus and Easter.

"Grief and hope are not parallel streets that we have to pick which one we're going to be on, they intersect," Dr. John Onwuchekwa tells a crowd as he's on stage.

When we struggle to find words and articulate our feelings, it's often a poem, a note, or a piece of writing that has the power to illuminate, heal, and reframe the unspeakable into solace and hope.

Crews shares a poem with us occasionally that often reflects the landscape and what's happening around him. Sometimes, he says, poems as an art form, connect us to the human experience, even if we ...

The poems make you acutely aware of fleeting time and the minutes of life ticking away. So why do we read about grief and sit with our sadness when the world around us is already on fire?

The poems present a gentle vision of mourning — a habitable kind of hurt. ... Twinning Grief And Hope, A Poet Softens Pain's Sharp Edge By Craig Morgan Teicher. Published March 12 ...

When I grieve the state of the church or the world, I hear him reminding us that grief is holy — and that hope is never naïve when it is rooted in the God of both Exodus and Easter.

Death and birth; grief and hope; fear and elation — these seeming opposites are made of much the same stuff, asserts Kevin Young in his eighth book of poems, which works to wrap itself around ...