To read the best poems I could find on the subjects of loss, acceptance, fear, anger, humor and hope — by Anne Silver, Naomi Shihab Nye, Jane Levin, Ted Kooser, Sandra Steingraber and many others — click here or on the Cancer Poems tab above.
In September of 2003, I organized a reading titled “Women, Interrupted: An Evening of Poetry and Music in Honor of Cancer Survivors and Loved Ones Lost.” At the time I had no cancer poems of my own, so I turned to the Internet. Sometimes I’d find a poem I liked, only to discover the poet had died. The poignancy was heightened by saber-rattling on page after page. But — as happens too often — cancer got the last word.
These poems vary in tone and style, but they all have something that caught me.
Click here -> Cancer Poems.
