William Blake’s “The Clod & the Pebble” is a dialogue on tenderness and cruelty in three short stanzas. Read it with our ...

At a loss for words? Poetry expresses the feelings we struggle to convey. Open any poetry book for proof: You’ll find love poems for romantic moments, silly rhymes for kids and limericks for when you ...

Sure, maybe the thought of reading your true love a poem makes you slightly nauseated, but if you really think about it, when we reflect on that feeling of being in love, it resonates through our ...

Sarah Ruhl’s mother was the first to explain that the word “quarantine” comes from the Italian term “quaranta giorni,” meaning forty days. “Forty days for ships to sit in ports so they would not ...

Love comes in many forms, and one of the most touching is through words. Poems have the power to touch the heart and convey deep feelings in a unique way. Sharing a poem with your partner is a ...

A new anthology highlights the charms and drawbacks of very brief verse. By Elisa Gabbert I remember where I was when I first read two short poems. One, Margaret Atwood’s “You Fit Into Me” (“you fit ...

How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope, edited by James Crews, Storey Publishing, 208 pages. $14.95. Credit: Courtesy This January, Amanda Gorman’s reading at the presidential inauguration ...

What language moves the soul and a river of love in us? How do you express the deeper longings and feelings? What to say, when the beauty of waking in your lover’s arms fills you with delirious joy or ...

For our Ultimate L.A. Bookshelf, we asked writers with deep ties to the city to name their favorite Los Angeles books across eight categories or genres. Based on 95 responses, here are the 14 most ...