Poetry expresses the feelings we struggle to convey. Open any poetry book for proof: You’ll find love poems for romantic moments, silly rhymes for kids and limericks for when you feel like laughing.

This short, dreamlike collection by the Japanese poet Ryoko Sekiguchi takes its cue and its source material from letters written by the 20th-century Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa to his love ...

Sometimes, I open a book and let a poem inspire me for the day, or I find the answer I had been searching for and receive guidance and help. A poem may be simple, but its purity can open and touch ...

Playwright Sarah Ruhl, of ‘Eurydice’ fame, has embraced poetry. Her new book ‘Love Poems in Quarantine’ is out through Copper Canyon Press.

Shopper Stella posted on X that she was "crying" over the book titled 'Love Poems by Women'. The book was given as a gift at Christmas time in 1997, but it was the beautiful message that left ...

In recent years the love poem that has most startled me and moved me is Vona Groarke's heart-rending Ghost Poem from her Gallery Press book X. That X could be an Ex. or 10 bad things that can ...

LITTLE POEMS (Everyman’s Library, $18), a new anthology edited by Michael Hennessy, provides a history of short poems since antiquity, from Sappho to Ocean Vuong, a lovely pocket-size volume ...

Short poems for kids that delight and enrich While poetry might seem like the realm of intellectuals, this literary domain is vast, encompassing everything from the love poems we send our ...