Alex Dimitrov's new collection — perfect for anyone caught between the moon and New York City — advises readers to be patient: Time is always moving on, bringing us closer and closer to love.

Poetry has been an essential part of many countries’ popular culture for centuries. Italy, Russia, Iran, Chile, Poland, and Nicaragua are good examples, to name just a few. In these places, professors ...

Jay Hopler died last week. Illness streaks across this poem from his final collection — but also love.

Mary Oliver's Felicity (Penguin Press, $24.95), forthcoming next month, is a breezy, inviting collection of love poems that celebrates the divine as much as it does the natural world or human ...

Playwright Sarah Ruhl, of ‘Eurydice’ fame, has embraced poetry. Her new book ‘Love Poems in Quarantine’ is out through Copper Canyon Press.

Honey? You awake? The soft glow of a smartphone screen, the caress of sweatpants, a new collection of poems by John Kenney celebrates what happens to romance after years (and years) of marriage.

Brecht is irresistible in Love Poems, like some disaffected offspring of Petrarch and Catullus reared by the Earl of Rochester.

NEW: Marilyn Chin's "Urban Love Poem," first published in the 1990s, looks backward to San Francisco as gold rush boomtown and destination for immigrants from Asia.

In the poetry of immigrants, nostalgia is as common as confetti at parades. My nostalgia was the bottle in which I stored my explosive rage.

Poetry should be celebrated every day of the year, but this World Poetry Day, we'd like to take a moment to introduce you to the world of contemporary poetry - and it's fizzing with new voices ...