Like many of Shakespeare’s other works, this is a love poem for a woman or man who enriched the poet’s life. The opening ...

Love is not exclusive to lovers. It's for anyone and everyone. If it were not there would be no ministers or priests to preach. No Mother Theresa or teachers to teach. No one looking up at the moon ...

For the rest of her life, hundreds of poems circle around the same mournful ... Dickinson never married, though she fell in love with a number of unavailable men and women. This poem seems to ...

As a young girl, I couldn’t name it, but I was falling in love with, and collecting, words. I pasted poems and song lyrics ... things to have woven through a life. Rebecca Dotlich's books ...

There are no revelations in Love and Need, but Plunkett excels at bringing the poems to life with contextual details (such as the ones above) and literary resonances. Robert Frost in 1962.

“On reading ‘My Butterfly,’ ” Adam Plunkett writes in his new Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry, “the poetry editor called the rest of the staff over to listen because ...

There is an underlying sense of peace in the face of death and the struggles of life. Swanson’s latest book of poetry, titled “Webs and Irises,” is 56 pages and includes dozens of poems ...