Daily Archives: April 12, 2023

National Poetry Month: How Poets Pen The Grief Experience

Across America, powerful imagery and musical cadence ring out in coffee shops and onto the page during National Poetry Month. Launched by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996, the month-long recognition celebrates the poets’ integral role in our culture and society. We are reminded that poetry matters. Evermore’s very own Jena Kirkpatrick (editor…

Distinguished Author & Poet Naomi Shihab Nye Shares Her Poem On Grief, “Old Friend”

Dear Friends unknown,  We are joined together by so many things in grief.  Maybe there’s a luminous cord connecting us through sleepless hours and hardest times.  The poet Jack Ridl told me years ago, after my father died, “Grief is an ambush. When you’re least expecting it, it rises up again…” Poetry is a close…