Rats leave the sinking ship, they say.

has been euthanized after the pet was seized by New York state earlier this week, according to the Department of Environmental Conservation. P’nut the Squirrel, 7, was put to death by the state ...

To do any less was to lose the cruel game of oblivion; and I, Yves, death cheater, was never to be defeated. How impudent I was, then, to believe that I was smarter than death. That She could be ...

Paul Engle noted that “poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power.” As if by magic, poetry books capture feelings that are often elusive and put into words our deepest pain and ...

Others wait until after their loss and sometimes tear up in the studio. Rose keeps tissues at her station for this. For pet owners like Manion, however, this tattoo journey feels like a celebration.

For my part, I’ve inherited these heroic, epic ‘herstories,’ and through frontline resistance I’ve carried these stories, told through poetry and legal briefs, to world courts. This poem gives a ...

Pets are the family members who supply unconditional, uncomplicated love, and for many people, losing a pet comes with a somewhat ... acknowledge their profound loss and help them remember their ...

One of his final poems, “Facing the Sea, with Spring Blossom,” might be his most memorable, but my personal favorite will always be “September,” in no small part because it was turned into a song by ...

The First World War inspired profound poetry, words in which the atmosphere and landscape of battle were evoked perhaps more vividly than ever before. The First World War poets – many of whom lost ...

Founded in 1934, Pet Memorial Park is one of the oldest active pet cemeteries in the country. (The oldest was founded in ...

A federal judge has temporarily halted the planned execution of an Idaho man on death row whose first lethal injection ...

Poetry is close to my heart. I would be lost without its very specific magic, its ability to spark wonder and shock and to open up fresh vistas on life in God. But as W. H. Auden famously says in his ...