Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago

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In this episode of Poetry Thursday, I am focusing on poems of comfort and consolation in times of grief.

For Jess @JessBookgirlTV.

Poems included in this episode:

Nye, Naomi Shihab. "Making a Fist." In Grape Leaves: A Century of Arab
American Poetry. University of Utah Press, 1988.

Merwin, W.S. "Separation." In The Second Four Books of Poems.
Copper Canyon Press, 1993.

Ignatow, David. "For My Daughter." In Against the Evidence: Selected
Poems 1934-1994. Wesleyan University Press, 1993.

Clifton, Lucille. "oh antic God." In Mercy. BOA Editions Ltd., 2004.

Kooser, Ted. "Mother." In Delights in Shadows. Copper Canyon Press,
2004.

Oliver, Mary. "In Blackwater Woods." In Devotions: The Selected Poems
of Mary Oliver. Penguin Press, 2017.

Lemay, Shawna. "In Lieu of Flowers." In The Flower Can Always Be
Changing. Palimpset Press, 2018.

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