I’ve learned something new about myself these past few days, which is that I am not naturally ... the poem begins, in a mode of resignation more suited to the elegy than the love poem, one ...

The job of a poet laureate is to engage Illinoisans in poetry, with each poet laureate given a small stipend to enact that ...

As partnerships evolve, the initial intensity of sexual passion morphs into a more everyday, although no less exciting kind of love. Poem II from Adrienne Rich’s sequence Twenty-One Love Poems ...

From an early age, K Love the Poet felt a deep responsibility to nurture and uplift those around her. As a child, she ...

These days, Alissa Quart’s attention has broken into strange shapes. But she has found a reprieve in one thing: poetry.

I keep a complete copy of Dickinson’s poems on my prayer stand. I pick it up to read before I pray, not because she is particularly religious—she is more often ... she fell in love with ...

Poetry gives voice to those who find it hard ... I’ll always be here for you through your struggles and tears. I love you more than my words could ever show. You mean everything to me; I just ...

I have committed well over 100 poems to memory — from the classics to my own work, and I like to use my love ... am able to draw from memory. That helps facilitate my instruction and is much ...

An Oxford researcher found a rare, handwritten variation of one of Shakespeare’s most famous love poems. About 400 years ... additional lines — reads more as a celebration of political loyalty ...

Indiana author Rebecca Kai Dotlich writes about how a childhood spent collecting lyrics and words sparked her love of poetry.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica’s newly appointed Poet Laureate, Professor Kwame Dawes, plans to celebrate and promote the art of poetry throughout the island during his tenure. Custos Rotulorum ...

Nevertheless, for this poem ... end of Love and Need, you’re glad to escape his company. He certainly had his trials—the death of his wife, the suicide of his son—but somehow more depressing ...