Perhaps that’s why the poem that is most meaningful to me is “Moisés,” or “Moses,” by Luis Alberto de Cuenca. On the eighth day after my son died, I read it aloud beside his grave ...

His poems could be haunting, or dryly funny. One consists of a single sentence: ... Mr. Scully, 77, showed a flier of his missing son to Boston Homeless Services employees, in Boston in June.

The poem rhetorically and emotionally zigzags, too, between statements and questions. The title is repeated in the first line with an anaphora of “The son I’ll never have,” adding immediate ...

Matthew Rosen, missing for nearly 25 years, was found in Alaska and reunited with his family in Knoxville after a decades-long search filled with faith and hope. Skip Navigation Share on Facebook ...

Senegalese author and feminist Mariama Bâ is known for her French-language novels “So Long a Letter” and “Scarlet Song.” She became, before her death in 1981, one of the 20th century’s most ...

At 9:22 a.m. on March 23, I shared the poem, “Jabberwocky,” with my WhatsApp group. My son’s heart stopped beating 3½ hours later, as I held his hand and sang to him.