“Happy Birthday, Zbigniew Herbert!” (born 29 October 1924 in Lwów, Poland [now Lviv, Ukraine] – died 28 July 1998 in Warsaw, Poland).

“Half-Caste” by John Agard (born 21 June 1949 in Georgetown, British Guiana [now Guyana]. He has been based in Britain since 1977.

Link: Against our better judgement and without any evidence, we cling to an afterlife so we can imagine time with our beloved. Instead, we must give grieve and grieve well, and know it’s the end.

“The Bedstuy Notebook: The Men” by Jacqueline Johnson, American poet and writer based in Brooklyn, New York.

“Here in Katmandu” by Donald Rodney Justice (born 12 August 1925 in Miami, Florida, USA – died 6 August 2004 in Iowa City, Iowa, USA).

“American Smooth” by Rita Dove (born 28 August 1952 in Akron, Ohio, USA).

“Friends” by Leonora Speyer (born 7 November 1872 in Washington, D.C., USA – died 10 February 1956 in New York City, USA).

“Once by the Pacific” by Robert Lee Frost (born 26 March 1874 in San Francisco, California, USA – died 29 January 1963 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA).

“Warning” by Jenny Joseph (born 7 May 1932 in Birmingham, England – died 8 January 2018 in London, England).

“After the Beginning” by Linda Gregg (born 9 Sept 1942 in Suffern, New York, USA – died 19 March 2019 in New York City, USA).

“Annunciation” by Marcus Vinicius da Cruz e Mello Moraes (born 19 Oct 1913 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – died 9 Jul 1980 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

“Praise Them” by Li-Young Lee (born 17 August 1957 in Jakarta, Indonesia… American poet of Chinese descent)

“A Black Man Talks of Reaping” by Arna Wendell Bontemps (born 13 October 1902 in Alexandria, Louisiana, USA – died 4 June 1973 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA).

“Perhaps One Morning Walking” by Eugenio Montale (born 12 October 1896 in Genoa, Italy – died 12 September 1981 in Milan, Italy)

“Survival is a Ritual” by MK Kuol (a contemporary South Sudanese poet).

“January” by William Stanley Merwin (born 30 September 1927 in New York City, USA – died 15 March 2019 in Haiku, Hawaii, USA).

“When We Are Weak” by Ronald Stuart Thomas (born 29 March 1913 in Cardiff, Wales – died 25 September 2000 in Llanfairynghornwy, Anglesey, Wales)

“Another World” by Rethabile Masilo (born 1961 in Morija, Maseru, Lesotho)

“So Much Memory” by Saddiq Dzukogi (born 1991 in Minna, Niger State, Nigeria)

“A Song in the Frontyard” by Gwendolyn Brooks (born 7 June 1917 in Topeka, Kansas, USA – died 3 December 2000 in Chicago, Illinois, USA).