It takes a bit of licence with the literal meaning but it works: I hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know. I only feel it, and I’m torn in two. Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to ...

Once, poetry was ink spilling spontaneously and consciously onto parchment, then wrapped in the folds of intimacy, passed ...

Heyy Babyy is peak 2000s chaotic rom-com energy, where three party-loving bachelors wake up one day to find a baby on their doorstep—and no clue what to do with her. What starts as a comedy of errors ...

I love my kids more than life itself. My 6-year-old boy is funny, sensitive, smart, and beautiful. My 3-year-old daughter is ...

Pinky The Poet pulled up to Fresh Friday to perform "Societal Mechanisms" and to talk about what brought her there from ...

Shakespeare’s plays have the rare ability to draw together comedy, romance and tragedy: the essential ingredients for a ...

I wrote about Rupi Kaur — how her poetry is bad and I despise her success, et cetera. I thought that was all I had to say. But then, I was alerted to a poet. Her digital scent wrapped around my ...

But, unfortunately, Hallmark rhymes rarely mine the depths of love and desire. So, if you’re looking for the perfect words for your loved one this year, why not share one of these poems ...

Charles Baudelaire is our most religious 19th-century poet. It’s just that his poetry does religion in the mode of anti-religion.

In his weekly interview with writers, Scott Heller of The New York Times asks the same final question: “You ... fell in love with a number of unavailable men and women. This poem seems to ...

Some songwriters started writing poetry before segueing into song. Others will even say that most of their songs started as a poem, or inspired by the work of classic poetry, or poets. Videos by ...