In one of the most famous love poems of all time, Burns goes all out to express the wonder of love: It’s beautiful like a flower, it’s sweet like music, it’s deep as the sea. And Burns isn ...
Thanksgiving poems celebrate pretty much every aspect of the holiday—gratitude, family, nature and love. But George Parsons Lathrop tackles the feature of utmost importance: the feast.
Wedding readings are a case in point. The internet has more love poems that you could shake a diamante-clad veil at, but choosing something that speaks to you is a tough proposition. Unless you ...
An inventive and vital voice in American letters, Dean Young first fell in love with poetry during his childhood in Pennsylvania, when in the third grade he “started writing and never stopped.” After ...
It’s a line that glows hot like the filament of a lightbulb, at once a metaphor for Lorca’s poetry — which wielded ... most of all, love.” In the same way, Golijov’s opera, and Colker ...
What I love about poetry is that you can perform it anywhere. There are performances spaces all around us. In the bedroom. In the playground. I ….was…. at…. the ...