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We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return.

Losing my daughter was a very serious pain. There was always some empty space in my heart.

I lost my daughter at 21. I had to give her up because I was broke, no place to take her, no money to take her. That was very traumatic.

During my grief, I realised there was nothing I could do for my mother, but I did have a child.

I lost my dad when I was younger, and I know what it's like to lose a beloved parent.

I lost my father was I 10 years old, and I always looked for a father. I missed my father very much.

I lost my mother when I was very young, and my father when I was in college.

The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.