Instead of greeting cards and chocolates this Valentine's Day, poet Kwame Alexander has packaged up for you a poem inspired by kids' definitions of love. Last month, NPR asked elementary and high ...

In 2021, the second full year of the pandemic, I began to go outside more after a year of intense insideness. Like others, I started noticing what I had not known how to see previously: the arching of ...

"There was a boy named Emile / who fell in love with a field," poet Kevin Young writes. "It was wide and blue — and if you could have seen it / so would've you." Emile and the Field is the story of a ...

The poet W. S. Merwin wrote a lot about birds: birds singing, birds dying, birds “whirled in a rising cloud … dissolving, streamering out.” This poem, “Shore Birds,” was included in Merwin’s 2005 ...

In This Could Be a Love Poem for You, her fourth collection of verse, Ranu Uniyal offers a powerful poetic account of her wrestling with the profound sense of loss that pervades her everyday existence ...

I know nice Jewish boys like me aren’t supposed to have favorite hymns, but I went to an Episcopalian high school, and if there’s anything I learned in four years of chapel services, it’s that those ...

Jay Hopler died last week. Illness streaks across this poem from his final collection — but also love. By Jay Hopler Selected by Victoria Chang I always remember these lines in Jay Hopler’s debut book ...

(The Conversation) — The famous biblical book alludes to God only once. Historically, though, most interpreters have argued the poem’s about love between the divine and his people. (The Conversation) ...