From classics to modern masterpieces, these great poetry books—recommended by poets themselves—belong on your bookshelf.

But this book also details the development of a life's philosophy -- perhaps Gilbert's greatest gift to his longtime readers. The poems are as insistent of the value of absolute consummation in ...

John Koethe spent decades as a philosophy professor. The poems in his latest collection, “Cemeteries and Galaxies,” are full of reflection and digression and probing.

Back in January, in honor of Valentine's Day, Morning Edition announced a love poem request line: Send us your memories of love and relationships, and author Kwame Alexander will find a poem that ...

“Romantic Poet,” by Diane Seuss, is one of the best things that our critic A.O. Scott read (and reread) this year.

Even when you can't be together, you can share your love across the miles with these long-distance love poems.

A woman was left in tears by the message that she found inside a book of love poems while out browsing in a charity shop. She had opened it to see if she wanted to buy the book ...

A list of the best love poems for Valentine's Day and wedding ceremonies, from verses written by Victor Hugo, Lord Byron and E.E. Cummings.

John Kenney says his poetry — a term he uses loosely — is poetry in the same sense that "Arby's is farm-to-table dining." His new collection is called Love Poems (for People with Children).

Sheryn A. Gackle, of Brockway, clipped this poem and tacked it on her refrigerator when her children were in junior high.