Collection

Love Poems

A bouquet of poems from recent and past issues

Video

Maggie Millner Reads Her Favorite Love Poems

From the Archives

The Hug

Thom Gunn
Poetry

The Afterlife

Jessica Laser
Poem of the Week

Getting Back Together

Keetje Kuipers
Derrick Tyson / Creative Commons
From the Archives

Half February

Charles Wright

Browse

Love Poems

A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
Poetry

Wide Margin Love Poem

Susan Barba
July 1, 2018
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
Poetry

Here Together

W. S. Merwin
January 1, 2016
Hendrik Doijer (attributed to), Stroomversnelling in de Mindrineti, ca. 1906 - 1913. Courtesy Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
Poetry

Love Poem as Ars Poetica

Erica McAlpine
July 1, 2013
Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keeffe, ca. 1919-1920. Courtesy The Art Institute of Chicago.
Poetry

Love Poem

Cecily Parks
April 1, 2013
Poetry

Tennessee Homesick Blues

Emily Moore
April 1, 2008
Zeev Barkan / Creative Commons
Poetry

Trying to Write a Poem While the Couple in the Apartment Overhead Make Love

David Wagoner
April 1, 2008
Jan l’Admiral (attributed to), Anatomische studie van een menselijk hart, ca. 1700-1750. Courtesy Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam..
Poetry

Love

Aaron Fagan
July 1, 2002
Derrick Tyson / Creative Commons
From the Archives

Half February

Charles Wright
October 1, 1997
From the Archives

The Hug

Thom Gunn
July 1, 1985
Poetry

Many Rivers

David St. John
September 1, 1984