William Blake’s “The Clod & the Pebble” is a dialogue on tenderness and cruelty in three short stanzas. Read it with our ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's not easy expressing your adoration for the woman in your life. Select some love poems for her and tell her how you really feel. Love languages may vary from one person to another, but it would be ...

“Romantic Poet,” by Diane Seuss, is one of the best things that our critic A.O. Scott read (and reread) this year. Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott Let’s talk about love. That’s what the people in this ...

A framed poster of a stamp depicting Langston Hughes, who wrote some of the best poems in American history. Poetry provides the perfect way to indulge in the escapism of reading without the commitment ...

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 ...

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 ...