But, unfortunately, Hallmark rhymes rarely mine the depths of love and desire. So, if you’re looking for the perfect words for your loved one this year, why not share one of these poems ...

I’ll pick a short one – Catullus ... I hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know. I only feel it, and I’m torn in two. Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk ...

Loyola's Social Justice Week invited poet Shivani Gupta to instruct using the power of the pen to combat injustice.

Hence, confess your love through short love poems that serve as perfect snippets of emotion. These profound words can bring a smile or even tears of joy to your beloved. So why not let the words ...

As a young girl, I couldn’t name it, but I was falling in love with, and collecting, words. I pasted poems and song lyrics into my diary. I treasured the lyrics found on thin crinkly paper ...

No literary pilgrimage to Massachusetts can be complete without a visit to the Amherst home of one of the most important ...

Ruth Padel, poet and author, argues that Fainlight’s feminism is only one of the many strands of her work. “Above all, she’s ...

I wrote about Rupi Kaur — how her poetry is bad and I despise her success, et cetera. I thought that was all I had to say. But then, I was alerted to a poet. Her digital scent wrapped around my ...

As a consequence, I have read through Dickinson’s complete poems—roughly 1,800 of them—three times. It takes a few years. Although most of her poems are short ... fell in love with a ...

Charles Baudelaire is our most religious 19th-century poet. It’s just that his poetry does religion in the mode of anti-religion.