Since 1986, Ted Kooser has written an annual Valentine's Day poem and sent it to an ever-growing list of women. Now, he's collected those poems in... Ted Kooser Shares the Poetry of Valentine's Day ...

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Permission” brings a memory of dog training, their pet now elderly: “I wonder if she remembers your scent — the cloud/ of ...

This is the sixth poem we’ve published by Peter Everwine, which testifies to how much I admire his writing. How fine it is when a memory arrives from the past to surprise us into happiness. Everwine ...

Excerpts from drafts of an unpublished poem by poet laureate Ted Hughes, which details his feelings about his wife Sylvia Plath's suicide in February 1963. The poem, called "Last Letter," is available ...

In James Merrill’s Collected Poems, all the “Previously Uncollected Poems” appear bunched together at the end, thus depriving ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A newly discovered poem by Ted Hughes describing his first wife Sylvia Plath's final days before her suicide was published on Thursday. "Last Letter," which appears in the New ...