Playing with tropes of ancient Greek mythology, the poem relates the death of a cat, the favorite of the author’s household, that fell into a fish bowl. And it concludes with the famous warning: “Not ...

If you’ve lost a pet, you have likely encountered “Rainbow Bridge”—a simple but poignant poem about animal heaven ... author, and cat owner in Tucson, Arizona. Koudounaris has spent ...

That’s where noodles and noodling got me. As for that chair-loving cat, she had the honor of inspiring a poetry form, the reverso. A reverso is one poem with two halves. You read the first ...