Nayyirah Waheed is a U.S.-based writer who started writing at the age of 11 when her teacher gave a poetry assignment to her class. She published her first book of poetry, titled Salt, in ...

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What kind of love poems are you in the mood for? T hroughout literary history, love poems have connected lonely hearts, ...

Deciding to confess your love isn't easy. There's fear, uncertainty, or maybe a bit of embarrassment. But if you've made up your mind to tell that special someone how you feel, do it through a poem.

Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition?

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 ...

Sixteen poets tell us about the verses ... with love”; and “Ice Storm,” by Hayden. Chen Chen is the author of “When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities.” The poem ...

I’ve come to many poems I love in similar ways ... There’s plenty of silly, light verse, not that I always mind throwaway poems (potato soup!). Short poems can be facile because they are ...