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If you could only take my husband's place and swear to me you'll answer when I call, and heed my desire. Kevin Higgins My favourite love poem is Mayakovsky's Past one o'clock.

In “Postcolonial Love Poem,” Natalie Diaz takes a traditional form and makes it her own, centering the experiences of queer women of color.

As U.S. Poet Laureate, Ada Limón has focused her attention on the natural world, most recently editing a collection of nature poems, titled You Are Here. But Limón's ability to see what others ...

It’s not just the emphasis on sex that makes the text unusual. The Song of Songs is the only work in the Bible that focuses exclusively on human-to-human love, not human-to-divine – at least ...

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The famous biblical book alludes to God only once. Historically, though, most interpreters have argued the poem’s about love between the divine and his people.