If hope were an object, it would be poet Alex Dimitrov's new book Love and Other Poems. In its entirety, the book itself is one long love poem — to New York City, to the moon, to the many ...

Written in 1904 by German Japanese American poet Carl Sadakichi Hartmann (1867–1944), the poem lists natural occurrences that, like love, would have been impossible to explain (at that time anyway).

Some love poems have been revered for centuries, penned by the likes of Walt Whitman, Williams Shakespeare and E.E Cummings. Others are known verbatim around the world thanks to films like The ...

When writing a love poem, begin with a feeling or an image. Next, think about specific details about the person or the relationship. Consider writing about the firsts you experienced together.

Falling in love is so all-consuming that not even lying skin-to-skin is close enough. For when you are in love: “Love Poem with Apologies for My Appearance” by Ada Limón (excerpt) “I’d like to say ...

April is Poetry Month. I am not suggesting that you sit down and read poems for Poetry Month, but that you write your own poem for someone whom you dearly love.

Some of the best poetry in the world is written about complicated love, wrong love, toxic love, but in the spirit of Valentine’s Day I’ve tried to get over my own hang-ups and share that ...

The romantic poetry of this poem sneaks up on you. Its music is subtle, but unmistakable. Rhymes, rather than hanging at the end of lines like ornaments on a tree, are clumped together and ...