Poets have been writing about death since the beginning of the written word, and it’s no wonder their poems often appear at funerals. Not only do funeral poems help people process the loss of a ...

"For the secular crowd, then, collecting non-religious funeral readings, songs, and ceremony information before their final days is essential," K.W. Colyard writes. ALAN SHAPIRO/Stocksy Because so ...

She describes, in sequence, the feeling of the “Funeral, in my Brain,” with the tramping ... Spring,' and he has received a 2019 Christopher Medal for his poetry in the year’s best children’s book. He ...

Like many funeral poems that give comfort to the grieving ... An icon of his time, Lord Byron (aka George Gordon) is one of the best-known English poets of the early 19th-century Romantic Movement.

Andrew Bird has enlisted the help of Phoebe Bridgers to create a tender folk interpretation of Emily Dickinson’s 1861 poem, “I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain.” Bird and Bridgers recorded the ...