and remember how poems create a heart’s history and remind us of home. Selected by Reginald Dwayne Betts The Woman You Love Cuts Apples for You By Patrick Rosal and stirs them in sea salt and ...

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 ...

This summer, we selected six poems by women and asked photographers to let ... You in the rearview double buckled back center my love. Your mother's mouth has a roof your mother's mouth is a ...

Sarah Fleming was a Black poet who advocated tirelessly for African-American women’s rights. Her poem about friendship echoes a universal truth: the world could always use a little more love.

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. Like most poems, “For Women Who Are ‘Difficult’ to Love ...