If you love your partner more than words can say, this is one of the best love poems for her. This five-stanza poem by Jean Toomer is a classic description of the speaker’s indelible attraction ...

What kind of love poems are you in the mood for? Throughout literary history, love poems have connected lonely hearts, transcended cultural barriers and ultimately withstood the test of time.

From love poems for her and love poems for him to words exploring issues of unity and injustice, gender and race, the best poem books explore all aspects of life.

Once upon a time, many years ago, a young woman pressed her senior prom corsage in a book of Shakespearean love poems. She ...

But it’s not the best poem in this collection. That’s arguably “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” which ... “On nights like this I held her in my arms. | I kissed her so many times beneath the ...

She addressed gender issues in her work, and was a female poet at a time when the area was dominated by men. Among Rossetti’s best known poems is this short work about one of the plants most ...

maybe I'm her drunk cousin. KELLY: (Laughter). RUSH: And it - people love it, which is great. They're always like, I'm following you just for the handle alone. KELLY: OK, so you do have a poem in ...

Many things: her unpretentious ... The best thing a reader has said to me – and the worst... Earlier this year I had a letter from a man who was dying, saying how much my poems had meant ...

To everyone's delight, the man read a poem he had written about the late Queen's 70-year reign. In a fitting tribute, he spoke of her 'long devoted service' and how she was 'that oyster pearl ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Lyndsay Rush, the poet behind @maryoliversdrunkcousin on Instagram, on how she went from not liking poetry to publishing her debut book of poems, A BIT MUCH.