William Blake’s “The Clod & the Pebble” is a dialogue on tenderness and cruelty in three short stanzas. Read it with our ...

Sonnets still have a reputation for being about the unrequited love of a man for a woman. AndreasPraefcke/Wikimedia Commons As poets have demonstrated for centuries, a sonnet for your beloved never ...

“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 ...

Discover a selection of fifty poetic and profound expressions designed to touch the essence of men with reserved personalities. We explore how the written word can break down emotional barriers and ...

The Post Bulletin publishes poetry by local and area writers every Tuesday. Send poems to [email protected] with the ...

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 ...

Considering February is the month of love, what better time could there be to write a love letter or poem to a beloved? To be loved and nurtured is a universal need. Being loved creates feelings of ...

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 ...

Hundreds of millions of poetic words have been written throughout history. Navigate your way into this beautiful art form with this list of the most famous poems ever written. What jumps into your ...