My Heart
That Mississippi chicken shack...
by Kim Addonizio

Negotiations
The best part…
by Rae Armantrout

Bodhisattva
The new news is I love you my nudist...
by Sarah Arvio

In Our Late Empire, Love
drops from upper air...
by Malachi Black

In the dark we crush
Crab apples for the sound of it...
by Julia Cohen

Love in the Morning
Morning's a new bird...
by Annie Finch

The Wall Hanging I Never Noticed
I never noticed before how the red flowers...
by Dorothea Lasky

Chess
Exactly four different men have tried…
by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

How to Love
After stepping into the world again...
by January Gill O'Neil

Bogliasco
I’m always running ahead of my life…
by Robert Polito

Love's Body
Love gives all its reasons...
by Jonathan Wells

You are perfect for me
because you’re psychic…
by Rebecca Wolff

Blue Vase
Because you like to sleep at dawn with curtains drawn…
by Cynthia Zarin

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Poetic Pairings
Learn how to pair the perfect poem with sweets, drinks, and flora for your partner on Valentine's Day.
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Eros and the Lyric Imagination
by Marilyn Hacker
Eros is often the fuel of the lyric imagination, which chooses to use words, sentences, musical structures of language to re/member the beloved, to enter that inexhaustible source of—not uniquely “carnal”—knowledge which is another person’s body and mind.
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All My Poems Are Love Poems: When Two Poets Fall in Love
Love poetry is about as old as love itself, from Homer’s vision of Penelope’s steadfastness, to the biblical Song of Solomon, to Shakespeare’s sonnets for his “Dark Lady” (or, some speculate, Dark Lord), to Keats’s love songs for his own depression. Most poets, at one time or another, write their way into the hearts of their chosen partners, but sometimes something slightly more unusual happens: two poets fall in love with each other.
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Dear Dainty Delicious Darlings
To poets such as Lewis Carroll, Paul Laurence Dunbar, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, Charles Olson, Alexander Pope, Gertrude Stein, Walt Whitman, and W. B. Yeats, love letters were the means by which they could send “A hundred thousand kisses, darling!” (Joyce) or just “a hundred and eighty-two” (Carroll), whether they had been “prepared by drinking” (Pope) or written “wildly...not stopping to think” (Dunbar). Read letters to and from these poets and more.
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