"You will be in my heart forever. Without you, there are only emptiness and desert in my life…" This is a line from a heartfelt poem Feng Duan wrote to his fiancée Chen Lianfang in 1955. Feng is now ...

Johnny Cash: Forever Words is available now. Taking a love letter or poem his father wrote his mother and setting it to music was deeply personal for Cash, but he says he felt the need to share his ...

There’s nothing more inspiring or touching than a romantic wedding. Like seriously, aren’t weddings just great? Everyone is wearing a fancy suit or dress, there’s cake and dancing, and the bride and ...

How do I love thee? Let me count the page views. If traffic at the Poetry Foundation’s website is any indication, modern love is romantic, nostalgic, morbid and ironic — in roughly that order. A list ...

As a poet, I spend a lot of time defending poetry. People who don't have a natural affinity for the genre tend to write it off as antiquated, impermeable, or just plain stuffy. Non-poets often brush ...

If you’ve ever been in love, then you know how much it can change you. You might not notice it at first. Maybe your friends compliment you on that something, something you seem to have. Perhaps your ...

When Johnny Cash died almost 15 years ago, he left behind a treasure trove of unpublished poems and handwritten letters. The new album Johnny Cash: Forever Words, out now, immortalizes those words in ...