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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Daljit Nagra selects two editions of The Essay - Letters to a Young Poet with Michael Longley and Tell Me the Truth About Love with Carol Ann Duffy.