Esther Jay
“Literal heartache accompanies the loss of someone you love…the phantom pain of a severed limb.”
On Grief
Tag: death
Thirteen Ways of Looking at Your Dying Mother.
Penny Jackson
“But there is no other title. My mother is dying. This story is really for me.”
A Writer’s Final Farewell to a Spouse
Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler
I was hesitant to pick up In Love as a newlywed. I am superstitious enough to worry about inviting misfortune by way of acknowledging it. But when I stood under the chuppah last November and married my husband, I remember thinking about death.
What a Literary Left-Wing Legend Left Behind
Ellen Gruber Garvey
In Frances Goldin’s apartment, we found a powerful sign: “I Adore My Lesbian Daughters.”
An Expected Unexpected Death
Lesléa Newman
Three poems from Lesléa Newman about the impact of her mother’s death on her father and herself.
When Poetry Held Me Together
Lesléa Newman
Just as the form held the poems together, writing the poems held me together.
My Tía Adelaide at the End of Life
Marlena Maduro Baraf
My San Antonio tía was not a matriarch in the usual sense. She didn’t leave children and grandchildren to add to the breadth of the family tree. Her gift was longevity, her mental resilience.