Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me. This sonnet from English poet John Donne (1571–1631) isn’t a conventional love poem but rather ... it’s harder to explain why you love someone.

A savvy man was sent over $300 worth of freebies from his favorite brands — after he wrote them poems. Andrew Cunningham, 29, ...

Let me count the ways ... If I am an angel—why, you are the cause. Yes, this love poem would be appropriate for a guy, but hear us out! It’s telling the recipient—aka the woman you love ...

I gazed down at the fence line, prob’ly near a quarter mile. One lodgepole post lay on the ground. It’d been there for a ...

I discovered that some shiso, which a kind neighbor offered me last spring ... and read or write a poem. Why? Because in the ...

For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages. Mark Leidner’s poem ...

Other mail came to me directly or through my publishers ... She could not understand why her son cared so little for poetry. She knew he was typical of his generation and worried that something ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Janet Wong, who lives in Gig Harbor, Washington. Janet is a graduate of Yale ...

Why Mary Oliver ... RUSH: Thank you for having me. KELLY: We have been talking about her debut poetry collection, which is titled "A Bit Much." (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) Transcript provided by NPR ...