Love has always found its purest expression in poetry. Through verses, we capture emotions that sometimes words alone cannot describe—the heartbeat of affection, the sweetness of intimacy, and the ...

Choosing the right love poem for your boyfriend can be incredibly nerve-wracking, whether you're in a new relationship or have been together for ages. From sweet, short love poems for him to read on ...

When you fall in love, you sort of losing all rationality. So, you have to really think when it comes to writing poetry. Whether you're in a relationship or you're hoping to be in one with someone in ...

Sonnets still have a reputation for being about the unrequited love of a man for a woman. AndreasPraefcke/Wikimedia Commons As poets have demonstrated for centuries, a sonnet for your beloved never ...

After a forced confession and a death sentence, a Kurdish poet spent 30 years in jail, where he discovered his voice. His ...

Back in January, in honor of Valentine's Day, Morning Edition announced a love poem request line: Send us your memories of love and relationships, and author Kwame Alexander will find a poem that ...

The feeling of being in love can make you do some things you'd never think about doing before; singing, writing your names in a heart on your notebook, and even getting into poetry. Poetry, both ...

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 ...

University of Westminster provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. For many, this year’s Valentine’s Day will be like no other. If you are spending the day apart from your loved ones, and ...

Donne’s poetry isn’t so easy to master. His near contemporary Ben Jonson and his later advocate William Hazlitt both seem to have formed the same view, namely that Donne was a brilliant man, a poetic ...

This past winter, more than 500 Miamians, including a 7-year-old, sat down and wrote a love poem to their city, but not just ...

Maxine Hong Kingston, Randy Komisar and others explore Marilyn Chin's "Urban Love Poem". The episode explores San Francisco's history from the Gold Rush and early Chinese immigration to the rise of ...