The week of Valentine’s Day breathes love. Many elders have lived through love’s changing seasons consciously, experiencing what an alive, evolving, hazardous and soul-satisfying thing love is.

“How can that be poetry?” Marie is 94 years old, a warm, bright-eyed woman ... many of them were love letters or letters of apology. “So he was helping people, I suppose.

But the urge to suspend complex feelings in the medium of poetry never gets old. Modern poets fill the old vessels with fresh insight, looking at the pains and pleasures of love from new angles.

I remembered the Boygenius lyric while I was listening to “Forever Is a Feeling,” which feels long on horny poetry ... of old stuff. Labi Siffre I’ve been obsessed with forever. I love ...

There really is no better time to begin a love-affair with poems than World Poetry Day on March 21 ... States as a Vietnamese refugee as a 2-year-old child. The poems explore not just of the ...

“I did not realize what a gift it was as a young person,” K Love explains. “At 11 years old, I would have all ... would become a school teacher, but poetry was the wild card that popped ...

I would go back to old poems and try and make them appear ... Diamandis spoke to VF about the healing properties of poetry, her love of Eve Babitz, and her next record. Since the book, I have ...