Grieving anyone in life is challenging. This holds to be especially true when you lose a close loved one. The late poet, Max Ritvo shed…
In this poem by Wendy Thompson Taiwo, the weight of generational trauma, carried for over three decades, is tangible. Wanting to shed this burden, not…
The popular television show BoJack Horseman incorporates themes of mental health and suicide prevention into its characters’ lives. The View from Halfway Down was a…
“Celebrate” by Mikaela Brewer is a poem honouring the power of words and voices, but specifically about the joy of diverse cultures, traditions, and stories….
One of the most moving and beautiful elegies in Spanish literature is the one written by the Spanish poet Miguel Hernández on the unexpected death…
Rupi Kaur is a Canadian poet and author who released her first poetry work as a 21 year old university student. Her first poetry book…
“Instructions for a Bad Day” is a spoken word poem by Canadian poet and writer Shane Koyczan, from his eBook of poetry Our Deathbeds Will…
Born in 1809, Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, and literary critic known for his romantic and melancholic prose. Being the first well-known…
Greif, in its simplest form, is experienced by people that have gone through some type of loss. People may suffer from anger, sadness, anxiety, fluctuations…
When the topic of one taking their own life is brought up, a lot of the focus is on the individual who died. While the…
