A humorous and heartfelt twist as a cholo delivers love poems with street-style charm and unexpected sweetness. Trump bans citizens of 12 countries from entering the U.S. Scientists puzzled by ...

Nayyirah Waheed is a U.S.-based writer who started writing at the age of 11 when her teacher gave a poetry assignment to her class. She published her first book of poetry, titled Salt, in ...

Two poems, commissioned by The Daily Telegraph for Valentine’s Day, ... Wendy Cope’s ‘Two Cures for Love: Selected Poems 1979-2006’ is published in paperback this month by Faber at £7.99.

I arrived in the U.S., for graduate study, in literature, in the fall of 1986. I was twenty-three. After a year, I began to paint, even though I had come to the U.S. intending to become a writer.

Lessons from Pablo Neruda’s mind-bending verse. By Nicholas Casey My friend Ravi introduced me to the love poems of Pablo Neruda when we were teenagers. On the cover of the writer’s ...

Let’s talk about love. That’s what the people in this poem seem to be doing. The author and her friend, a scholar, are debating the crushworthiness of a certain “Romantic Poet.” ...