Finding the right words to comfort someone who is grieving is never easy. During times of profound loss, we often find ourselves searching for a balance between being respectful and showing genuine ...

Our deepest sympathy to Annie & the extended family on the passing of Pat. He was an integral part of the Singing & Poetry group in Foxford, generous in sharing his beautiful songs & stories. Rest in ...

Empathy refers to the ability to understand how a person feels and to experience their emotions. Sympathy refers to feeling for another, such as feeling sorry for them, without actually feeling their ...

Employees, poets, and other community members at the Poetry Foundation are protesting the organization’s decision, announced on December 1, to phase out all public programming, beginning in the new ...

Fiona Benson’s Midden Witch is a ferocious and frightening book that illuminates those women – often healers, artists – termed ‘witch’. In Benson’s poems a gentle spirit somehow coexists with an ...

Here are the year’s most notable collections of verse as chosen by our poetry columnist. Credit...Photo illustration by Sebastian Mast Supported by By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s collections of ...

Gabrielle Calvocoressi’s most recent collection, “The New Economy,” was a finalist for the 2025 National Book Award for Poetry, and one of their poems was included in “A Century of Poetry in The New ...

From daring contemporary collections to the long-awaited definitive edition from one of the major poets of the 20th century, this is our pick of the best poetry books of the year. Whether you’re a ...

Inspiration can and often does come from the strangest places, and in the case of the classic Rolling Stones track, “Sympathy For The Devil”, some of the best songs are made by taking every possible ...

Across 25 leading AI models, 62% of poetic prompts produced unsafe responses, with some models responding to nearly all of them. Researchers in Italy have discovered that writing harmful prompts in ...

Noah Baumbach’s new film, Jay Kelly, takes a gamble with its fantastically successful protagonist. I won’t even bother to play the world’s tiniest violin for Jay; after all, who among us hasn’t wanted ...

Bharadwaj said, "Sympathy has no value if the government cannot even provide an ambulance for the families to retrieve the bodies. The Home Minister came to Delhi's largest hospital, and the Chief ...