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Louise Glück’s mode of lamentation was her signature, and it seems fitting that one of her poems occasions the end of this column, after nine years.

The poem’s repetitions evoke the grim repetitions of history.

Developing, through ecstatic repetition, a theology of lostness.

Brandon Shimoda wrote this short poem after encountering a lost migrant in the Arizona desert.

Lyn Hejinian’s sonnet proposes that liberation might be found in scattering and disorientation.

A poem that overlays love onto a previously loveless surface of the world.

In this poem from a Palestinian American writer, absence becomes atmosphere.

The easy way of seeing the world begins to look like a socially convenient illusion.

An evocation of motherhood as negative capability.

In her new book, “Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts,” the poet Crystal Wilkinson explores her family history through cooking and recipes.