grief

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The Mud of Us

By Ashley Makar | March 30, 2024

Grief calls for outlandish acts of love.

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Poems for the Cruelest Month

By Francesca Hyatt | April 19, 2022

All of the intensity and unpredictability of this season, the surges of hope and terror, the stirring of memory and desire—word images, symbols, and sounds arranged in rhythm, engaged in elegy and mystery may be our best bet for helping us hold it all.

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Embering

By Ashley Makar | March 2, 2022

What to do with this grief over what happened to you? I don’t know, so I’m making a ritual. 

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Out For Coffee

By Kelly J. Baker | July 28, 2015

The sociable beverage becomes a grief ritual.

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Breaking Up With White Jesus

By Kaya Oakes | July 28, 2015

It’s December of 2014. 2am, 3am, 4am, 5am, I thrash and turn over in bed and click on my phone, know I should not click on my phone, click on…

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We Are Living Reminders

By Kelly J. Baker | September 3, 2014

HBO’s The Leftovers and grief

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Love is an Animal Thing

By Beatrice Marovich | August 15, 2013

Barbara King’s new book How Animals Grieve raises questions about grief, and its emotional corollary, love, for humans too.