loss Archives - The Dewdrop

Chinese-American poet Shaomei Yu reflects on loss and transition with Zen-like sparseness in her poem "The Closed Door".

Emily Tong – Girlhood Ghazal

Using the ancient poetic form of the ghazal, Asian-American poet Emily Tong searches for home in her "Girlhood Ghazal".

Ho Chi Minh City poet Phach Huynh reveals all the stories and presences which are held in the lonely silences with his masterful "Traces".

Surfer-poet of Hawaii, Richard Pettigrew, once again swings by The Dewdrop, this time with a botanical tragedy "Drunken Flora".

Brooklyn poet Erica Miriam Fabri presents a dialogue of love, loss, and acceptance in her dramatic and melancholic "The Bride and the Wolf".

In five brief lines, Francis Weeks' "Unfinished" has encompassed life, death, and the endless continuation of life.

Regina Gort-Betances' "(Mother) Bear" is a wild and mournful study of loss and grief, written on a canvas of bone, blood, and root.

An injured merlin opens the door to the way in which grief and joy are so bewilderingly intertwined in our hearts. BY DEREK FURR

A poem imbued with a sense of healing and strength cultivated over many seasons, enabling the capacity for wide-open looking and listening.

With her three-part poem "Soul-Cloud of a Son", poet Aviyah Abrams wanders the tragic contours of loss through the radiance of verse.