Sometimes the point takes you to some memory that is faint. The memory might not even be yours. And this is one of those poems, in which David Baker has me thinking of what I’ve gained and lost trying ...

“First Hand,” the new volume of poetry by Bainbridge Island author Linda Bierds, contains passages of astonishing beauty, like these lines from a poem titled “Matins: Gregor Mendel and the Bees”: The ...

Most of us do not think much of the frail elderly, the people who require constant care to get to the end of the day, near the end of their lives; still less do most of us think about their caregivers ...

In her second collection, The Hands of Strangers: Poems from the Nursing Home (BOA, 2011), Janice N. Harrington turns an unflinching eye to the world of those who have reached a final stage of life.

BBC presenter Sophie Raworth reads These Are The Hands by Michael Rosen. The former children's laureate is currently in intensive care in hospital, with suspected coronavirus. The poem is published in ...

Writing a new poem about the pandemic, El Jones thought of long-term care homes in lockdown, and families "meeting through glass" as residents were brought to windows to see loved ones outside. "Those ...

Joe Duffy has written a poem in honour of his famous phrase, '51551 wash yer hands' which originated at the start of the pandemic. In March 2020 as Covid-19 reached Ireland, Joe Duffy began telling ...

In Sachiko Akiyama's hand-carved wooden sculptures, the distinction between seeing and touch are softened, as her figures merge with creatures and spaces typically observed from a distance.“Long Hand ...

As part of Tell Me More's series for National Poetry Month, host Michel Martin shares a poetic tweet from poet and poker player Joel Dias-Porter. Listeners are invited to tweet original poems of 140 ...