Traditional English poetic elegists offer both writers and readers hope. After lamenting an individual's death and confronting the mortality of all living thing

Traditional English poetic elegists offer both writers and readers hope. After lamenting an individual's death and confronting the mortality of all living thing

A collection of poems centered around life in Appalachia addresses topics ranging from the marginalization of the region's people to the environmental degradati

Part post-punk ghost story, part Gen-X pastoral, Mary Biddinger's poetry collection DEPARTMENT OF ELEGY conjures dim nightclubs, churning lakes, and vacant Midw

The most widely practiced and read form of verse in America, “elegies are poems about being left behind,” writes Max Cavitch. American Elegy is the history