Turn on those sad songs, eat your ice cream, and read some of theses poems to help ease the pain. Falling in love can be one of the most beautiful things — many people say love makes the world go ...

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

“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 ...

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 ...

Andrea Gibson, known for their powerful poetry and performances, spent years exploring deep and political themes. They wrote openly about gender identity, love, social justice, and death, using honest ...

In 2021, the second full year of the pandemic, I began to go outside more after a year of intense insideness. Like others, I started noticing what I had not known how to see previously: the arching of ...