There's no special recipe when it comes to moving on from heartbreak and, rest assured, it WILL be one of the most uncertain times in your life. The only thing you can really guarantee is that ...

Do you really know the power of your words? Even just one syllable can carry the weight of years of emotion. Good poetry transcends a simple meaning: it's universal. It's comparable to a variety of ...

Let’s face it — poets are hard to love. I don’t mean it’s hard to love reading them; if you’ve followed this column for the past year, then you know I think it’s easy to love poetry. But try loving ...

If hope were an object, it would be poet Alex Dimitrov's new book Love and Other Poems. In its entirety, the book itself is one long love poem — to New York City, to the moon, to the many "scenes from ...

Jay Hopler died last week. Illness streaks across this poem from his final collection — but also love. By Jay Hopler Selected by Victoria Chang I always remember these lines in Jay Hopler’s debut book ...