Closely aligned to the theme of romantic love is that of desire ... Women are the objects of desire in her erotic poetry. These lines are a surviving fragment of a larger, lost poem, so what ...

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

Three poems stand out from the ... Angelou masterfully employs her pen to convey the importance of love in all its forms, not solely the romantic depictions we are commonly shown.

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

Closely aligned to the theme of romantic love is that of desire, and across the centuries poets have written about the torture of yearning. The Greek poet Sappho knew this even 2,600 years ago. Women ...

The Gatha Saptashati, an anthology of 700 poems on everything from nature and love to the general experiences of ordinary ...

Jonathan Owens is a safety for the Chicago Bears—but he's more well-known as Simone Biles' husband, and he continues to be ...

especially about romantic relationships, whether real or imagined, and she often wrote poems about them. At age 16, she began submitting her poetry to magazines and publishers, which brought ...

The rare handwritten copy of "Sonnet 116" features several additional lines, which may have been an attempt to insert British ...

Dolly Parton said her husband, Carl Dean, wasn't all that romantic. Still, he frequently gave her gifts that she found priceless.

Hot Springs poet Samantha Youngs will be featured at Wednesday Night Poetry at Kollective Coffee + Tea, 110 Central Ave.

Although most of her poems are short, they are terse and chewy ... In this poem, there is no imagined romantic resolution, no sighing after would-be’s, and no comforting heaven where every ...