Contemporary Love Poems
"My Heart" by Kim Addonizio
That Mississippi chicken shack...
"Negotiations" by Rae Armantrout
The best part…
"In Our Late Empire, Love" by Malachi Black
drops from upper air...
“Love Comes Quietly” by Robert Creeley
Love comes quietly…
"Love in the Morning" by Annie Finch
Morning's a new bird...
“Happy first anniversary (in anticipation of your thirty ninth)” by Bob Hicok
I don’t have much time. I’m an important person…
“For What Binds Us” by Jane Hirshfield
There are names for what binds us…
“The moon rose over the bay. I had a lot of feelings.” by Donika Kelly
I am taken with the hot animal…
"Someone" by Joseph O. Legaspi
Somewhere someone rises …
"Electrons" by Ruth Madievsky
The eye chews the apple …
“syntax” by Maureen N. McLane
and if…
“The Imprint” by Jennifer Moxley
We will count on these walls…
"Chess" by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Exactly four different men have tried…
"How to Love" by January Gill O'Neil
After stepping into the world again...
"Divine Overdose" by Matthew Rohrer
We are even more modern …
“Imaginary Morning Glory” by C. D. Wright
Whether or not the water was freezing. The body…
"Things Said To Be Ineffable" by Mark Yakich
A book decorates …
Poems Addressed to a Beloved
"To Dorothy" by Marvin Bell
"To My Dear and Loving Husband" by Anne Bradstreet
"How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Praisesong” by Sarah Browning
“The School of Night & Hyphens” by Chen Chen
"Heart to Heart" by Rita Dove
“Of the Irresolubleness of Diamonds” by Monica Ferrell
"Resignation" by Nikki Giovanni
“Scaffolding” by Seamus Heaney
"Yours" by Daniel Hoffman
"Song to Celia" by Ben Jonson
“[To find a kiss of yours]” by Federico García Lorca
"A Gift" by Amy Lowell
“San Antonio” by Naomi Shihab Nye
"Falling" by Patrick Phillips
"Twenty-One Love Poems [Poem II]" by Adrienne Rich
"Monna Innominata [I wish I could remember]" by Christina Rossetti
"Love's Philosophy" by Percy Bysshe Shelley
“[And sometimes I know I am having a feeling]” by Matthew Siegel
"After the First Child, the Second" by Mary Austin Speaker
"Galaxy Love" by Gerald Stern
"You Make Love Like the Last Snow Leopard" by Paige Taggart
“In Each Look Our Years” by Edwin Torres
"poem I wrote sitting across the table from you" by Kevin Varrone
"Love Poem" by Susan Wheeler
“Sonnet w/ Rose” by Matthew Yeager
"Ditty" by Kevin Young
"Blue Vase" by Cynthia Zarin
