Short plays look at grief as a cathartic, human experience

It’s a sad fact of life that we all will be touched by grief at some point in our lives. Of course, grief is the unavoidable price we pay for feeling love. So it’s appropriate then that Whiskey ...
LAist

After Loss, Turning To Poetry For Grief And Healing

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KRON4 News

‘Waves of grief’ program supports those dealing with loss

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) – The death and sickness caused by COVID has increased the need for ways to handle grief. People are looking for emotional healing, but it can be a challenge knowing what to say ...
HeraldNet

After a loved one’s death, grief and loss come in waves

Recently, I spoke to a young woman 20 years old, who lost her mother to cancer. Naturally, she feels bereft. It’s so hard to lose a parent on the eve of adult life. She imagines the years ahead — ...
The New York Times

Poem: [Thought at first that grief had brought him down.]

In “Kyrie,” these sonnets published way back in 1995, before I knew poetry or prison, Ellen Bryant Voigt reminds us that there have been pandemics before. There has been that absurd accumulation of ...