Love is a profound feeling and can’t be described in words. The recipe for a healthy relationship consists of a few ...

Poetry has been an essential part of many countries’ popular culture for centuries. Italy, Russia, Iran, Chile, Poland, and Nicaragua are good examples, to name just a few. In these places, professors ...

Poem II from Adrienne Rich’s sequence Twenty-One Love Poems describes the poet waking in her lover’s bed following a dream. She tenderly writes: “You’ve kissed my hair / to wake me.” ...

The love between friends deserves to be celebrated. These poems about friendship are sweet, relatable and heartfelt ways to say "I love you." ...

The romantic poetry of this poem sneaks up on you. Its music is subtle, but unmistakable. Rhymes, rather than hanging at the end of lines like ornaments on a tree, ...

Daljit Nagra selects two editions of The Essay - Letters to a Young Poet with Michael Longley and Tell Me the Truth About Love with Carol Ann Duffy.