Your brain's reward center literally lights up like a Christmas tree when you see their face. But the chemistry doesn't stop ...

Back in January, in honor of Valentine's Day, Morning Edition announced a love poem request line: Send us your memories of love and relationships, and author Kwame Alexander will find a poem that ...

As an act of revenge, it is Oscar-worthy. Olympic Gold standard. Stellar and sublime. Because what on earth could be more ...

How do I love thee? Let me count the page views. If traffic at the Poetry Foundation’s website is any indication, modern love is romantic, nostalgic, morbid and ironic — in roughly that order. A list ...

From the sonnets of William Shakespeare to the writings of Walt Whitman and the rejuvenating words of Amanda Gorman, poetry is indelibly writ into the fabric of not only popular culture, but the ...

April is National Poetry Month! Who else besides me is excited and wants to try talking in haiku all month long? No one? Hmm, okay. One of my favorite definitions of the word “poetic” comes from Urban ...

Taylor Swift’s lyrics are studied by college students across the country, including at Harvard University, for their literary value. Should they be woven into the high school and middle school English ...

Jeff Alessandrelli in his midtown Omaha home. Alessandrelli’s Fonograf Editions spoken-word-poetry records are pressed at the plant in Portland, where he recently lived. Vinyl records fresh off the ...