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Classic and contemporary works on affection, connection, heartbreak, and more.

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    poetry-magazineEnding Song

    By Paisley Rekdal
    You’d never call the branches
    arms, though in certain
    lights don’t pine and man
    look like hands

    conjoined…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineA Force of Nature

    By Paul Tran
    Mixed greens. Purple onions. Banana
    Peppers. Tomatoes. Avocados. Mayonnaise. Pepper. Sourdough.
    A stranger…
  • Poem

    It's Raining in Love

    By Richard Brautigan
    I don't know what it is,
    but I distrust myself
    when I start to like a girl
      a lot. It makes me nervous…
  • Audio

    What Love Can Be

    Poetry Off the Shelf
    Keetje Kuipers on becoming a single mother by choice, gardening topless, and leaping without looking.
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineThe Fountains of Youth

    By David Hopson
    The guy with dreads, in nothing but boots,
    stands shoulders above the passing men.
    A few dart for him,…
  • Poem

    Arcs

    By Magda Portal
    Translated By Kathleen Weaver
    Today everything
    in this smoky love
    seems false to me
    from the two glazed pools of your eyes
          where…
  • Poem

    The Love Tree

    By Countee Cullen
    Come, let us plant our love as farmers plant
    A seed, and you shall water it with tears,
    And I shall weed it with my hands until
    They bleed. Perchance this buried love of ours
    Will fall on goodly ground and bear a tree
    With...
  • Poem

    Words to My Love

    By Countee Cullen
    What if you come
    Again and swell
    The throat of some
    Mute bird;
    How shall I tell?
    How shall I know.
    That it is so,
    Having heard?
  • Poem

    If Love Be Staunch

    By Countee Cullen
    If love be staunch, call mountains brittle
    Love is a thing will live
    So long, my dear,––oh, just the little
    While water stays in a sieve.

    Yea, love is deathless as the day
    Whose death the stars reveal;
    And love is loyal all the way,
    If treachery...
  • Poem

    But Not Forgotten

    By Dorothy Parker
    I think, no matter where you stray,
    That I shall go with you a way.
    Though you may wander sweeter lands…
  • Poem

    A Fairly Sad Tale

    By Dorothy Parker
    I think that I shall never know
    Why I am thus, and I am so.
    Around me, other girls inspire
    In men the rush…
  • Audio

    Hope Rustles in My Leaves

    Poetry Off the Shelf
    Rebecca Lindenberg on diabetes, a final phone call, and letting yourself fall in love.
  • Poem

    Notes on Devotion

    By Caroline Harper New
    A man by the name of Skinner becomes famous
    for keeping caged
            pigeons, whom his clock feeds or starves
            at random. Their tiny twitching heads exaggerate until...
  • Poem

    Pencil Letter

    By Irina Ratushinskaya
    I know it won't be received
    Or sent. The page will be
    In shreds as soon as I have scribbled it.
    Later. …
  • Poem

    The Rabbi’s Red Ink

    By Shereen Akhtar
    In our first house-let in London, she drew on the tablecloth to create
    a calligraphic feast. Our friends…
  • Poem

    The Skin's Instruction

    By Jessica Rigney
    It's important she says that summer
    Flatten itself against autumn. That it keep Insisting yes yes it'…
  • Poem

    Rewind

    By Anastasia Taylor-Lind
    It’s 9/11 the first time you stay.
    In the morning you bring Taliban poems back to bed.
    I drink cardamom…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineMarch

    By Jessica Jiang
    Tiffany,
    I’ve gotten used to sunlight with you,
    but no pressure! Just—
    spring doesn’t hurt as much anymore…
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