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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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) ...

There are few forms of communication that are as powerful as a handwritten letter. So we recently asked listeners to send us poems in letter — or epistolary — form, addressed to anyone of their ...

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Suzanne Somers and husband Alan Hamel took the “til death do us part” portion of their vows very seriously, demonstrating their love for one another until Somers died a day shy of her 77th birthday on ...

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 ...