Based on Kwon Yeo-sun's short story of the same name, the film unfolds less like a narrative and more like a poem. The ...

This is Sidewalk Stories, a collaboration between Crosscurrents and the East Bay’s Street Spirit newspaper where we hear from ...

1. Love Will NOT Complete You Romantic movies and glossy magazines suggest that finding "the one" will somehow complete you, filling in every emotional gap you’ve ever felt. Spoiler alert: it ...

The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh (Faber & Faber) by Ingrid Persaud was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature’s Encore Award, worth £15,000, which recognises an outstanding second ...

Some of the best poetry in the world is written about complicated love, wrong love, toxic love, but in the spirit of Valentine’s Day I’ve tried to get over my own hang-ups and share that ...

Closely aligned to the theme of romantic love is that of desire, and across the centuries poets have written about the torture of yearning. The Greek poet Sappho knew this even 2,600 years ago.

He also has the best lines. “Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heav’n,” Satan declares in “Paradise Lost”, an epic poem by John Milton. God, by contrast, says boring things about ...

The first six poems in Then Come Back are love poems for Matilde Urrutia, Neruda’s third wife. While he and Matilde appear as entwined lovers and creative collaborators throughout his verses, the ...

Metal Detectorist Discovers 300-Year-Old Silver Thimble Engraved With a Romantic Inscription The artifact, which features the words “like enduringly, love forever,” had been declared a ...

Ali Blythe’s Stedfast (Icehouse, 48 pages, $20) is a book-length response to John Keats’ Last Sonnet. These moving love poems write into the Romantic tradition, making and re-making it for the ...