The Widow's List: Poems About Grief

The Widow’s List is a searing, intimate long poem born from the long shadow of losing a beloved partner. Written in the wake and wakefulness of grief, it traces the quiet, relentless ways absence reshapes a life. Here, mourning is both solitary and shared: a private language spoken in public spaces, a daily inventory of what remains and what will never return. The poem moves through the paradoxes of loss and how it can feel unbearably heavy and eerily hollow at once, how it interrupts time ...