I am not a romantic person. Don't get me wrong, if you want to festoon me with flowers or dump a box of chocolates in my lap, I won't be mad at it. But if a guy were to compose me a love poem and then ...

A new biography and a career-spanning collection of Anthony Hecht’s work show how fluent he was in his period’s style, and hint at the ways it might have restrained him. By David Orr David Orr is the ...

"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 ...