He shows us his daughter ... memory; love. We’re looking at a family portrait. It isn’t a selfie. Someone is behind the camera, a person whose presence quietly suffuses the poem.

He would tell me at age 13 – ‘your mates are ministers; why are you timid?’ Oh my goodness, memories of him always come, some in my dreams that are flogging me and sometimes just nostalgia. I was ...

Thirteen-year-old writer Ariana Shaprow is displaying her poem “The Way It Should Be” at the Mosaic Children’s Museum in Woodland, California, celebrating the accomplishments of ...

I’ll pick a short one – Catullus. Odi et amo: quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior. My favourite translation is by Peter Whigham. It takes a bit of licence ...

Many Americans have heard the expression “I am my beloved’s ... in the Bible that focuses exclusively on human-to-human love, not human-to-divine – at least on the surface level of the poem. Ancient ...

May this February 14th be filled with love and romance. Share these poems with your soulmate and let them know how much they ...

For five years, Steve and Renee Patten have been struggling to learn what exactly happened the night their daughter died. The ...

I'll never rue my trouble wi' thee, The cost nor shame o't, But be a loving father to thee, And brag the name o't Also entitled, 'Welcome to a Bastart Wean', this poem is addressed to Elizabeth ...

I keep a complete copy of Dickinson’s poems on my prayer stand ... Dickinson never married, though she fell in love with a number of unavailable men and women. This poem seems to point to ...