This week’s poem, Lucia Owen’s “Rainy Morning in the Horse Barn,” offers a tender, quiet interlude of communion among beings.

Choosing the right love poem for your boyfriend can be incredibly nerve-wracking, whether you're in a new relationship or have been together for ages. From sweet, short love poems for him to read on ...

‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be ...

Over the river, and through the wood, To grandfather’s house we go; The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh Through the white and drifted snow. Over the river, and through the wood— Oh, how the ...

This week’s poem, Meg Stout’s “Marry a Man Who,” offers a beautiful love-poem portrait of a human who speaks with and listens to the more-than-human world. I love how this poem moves as sweetly and ...

“Let me call my anxiety, desire, then. / Let me call it, a garden,” writes the poet Natalie Diaz in her luminous, tender second collection, a finalist for a National Book Award. A queer Aha Makav ...

“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 ...

Poetry has been a healing tool since the shamans, who chanted poetry for the wellbeing of the tribe. In modern times, Freud recognized the genuis of poetry: ‘Not I, but the poet discovered the ...

The Depot is hosting its next quarterly poetry night Friday, themed around love as a form of protest and joy even in uncertain times. “Love as an Act of Resistance” is the theme, part of an ongoing ...

In an age where human connections have become increasingly precarious, Hindi poet Kumar Ambuj's poem 'Vyavdhan' (Interruption) emerges as a profound meditation on the transformed nature of love and ...