Passionate love letters and poems can be born out of separation. When writing a love letter, it can help to keep a photo nearby of the letter recipient. Source: Ire Photocreative/Unsplash.

Morning Edition asked readers to submit poems in the form of letters, addressed to anyone. NPR poet-in-residence Kwame Alexander drew from the more than 600 responses to create a community poem.

There are people who wrote poems, ones who wrote to a past love, to a missed connection, love letters to New York City, cute cards from kids,” said flower designer Kelsie Hayes, the owner of ...

To revitalize our generation’s lost passion for love, we need to bring back an old-school practice of showing affection to our beloveds: writing love letters and poems. The first and only love ...

Her letters have a certain flair for the dramatic, as is evident in this snippet from one she shared with me, a rare apology from a wife to a husband: “I am sorry my love, no amount of guilt and ...

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 ...