Children's poet Constance Levy, a former educator who lives in St. Louis, encourages readers of all ages to tell their own ...

Captain Kendra Curtice was his executive officer on Fort Moore. She says they helped each other, sharing about struggles and then poetry, leading her to get help too. “I feel like I’m getting better.

Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness image ...

Dear Eric: I don’t know if this is an issue with others, or if I’m just over-sensitive. My partner and I have several pets ...

Dear Eric: I don’t know if this is an issue with others, or if I’m just over-sensitive. My partner and I have several pets ...

Closely aligned to the theme of romantic love is that of desire, and across the centuries poets have written about the ...

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

Glyn Maxwell's "Stargazing" embodies the essence of human love. Not flashy, boasting or indulgent, but simple, beautiful and ...

In my sophomore year at Brown, I wrote a 20-page proposal for an independent concentration that I never submitted. It was ...

My husband, Bruce, and I were standing over our 3-month-old, trying to coax him to sleep. We peered down as he let out a ...

Bearing cards, flowers, chocolates and poetry, lovers have always swooned on Valentine’s Day as cherubs circled overhead.