With words that pulse with vulnerability, sensuality, retrospection, and joy, a gifted collective of Black queer poets are ...

Boomers were raised in a world where feelings took a back seat to grit, and emotional support often came with a sharp edge.

Typically wearing leisurewear, the Canadian radio show host looks into a camera in the soundproof studio she created in her ...

Born in Chicago and raised in Alabama, WJ Lofton’s creative work breathes life into the intricacies of identity, race, grief, ...

John Koethe spent decades as a philosophy professor. The poems in his latest collection, “Cemeteries and Galaxies,” are full ...

We mistake butterflies for green flags. We call longing “chemistry.” We equate emotional whiplash with passion. That’s not ...

So much more than just a muse for the Pre-Raphaelites, 19th-century English poet Christina Rossetti is remembered for her love poems, religious poems and poems for the grieving.

6. Poem II by Adrienne Rich (1978) As partnerships evolve, the initial intensity of sexual passion morphs into a more everyday, although no less exciting kind of love.

For starters, even Petrarch wrote about more than just his love for Laura. A number of his poems were composed for friends, with several of them for the Florentine poet Sennuccio del Bene.

It is one of a handful of books behind a rise in British poetry sales: 2023 was the highest since records began. Which is to say, still very low (at £14.4m, or $18.2m, according to Nielsen BookData).