These women, along with 96 inspirational others, have shared the private stories behind the poems that get under their skin in a beautiful and timeless book, Poems That Make Grown Women Cry.

she might cry.When she does, address the root cause, apologize, tell her that her pain matters to you. Yes, sometimes love making when done in a pure way and done out of love, she might tear up.

In one of the most famous love poems of all time ... Onions are cheap, not the prettiest and they make your breath smell. But Duffy peels back the layers of her metaphorical onion to suggest ...

Poems serve a practical purpose when you are knackered, too. You can digest poems quicker than a whole book and still get a ...

Sonnet 60: “Like as the waves make ... love poem. Instead of placing his mistress on a pedestal with over-the-top comparisons, he chooses a more realistic, down-to-earth description instead. Her ...

A tearful mom who dropped off her kids at kindergarten ... I’ll love them as I would my own and help them learn and grow. So ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Janet Wong, who lives in Gig Harbor, Washington. Janet is a graduate of Yale ...

The actress and author of The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette For Young Ladies of Mad Science takes our literary survey.

Hurricane Helene, which made landfall on the Gulf of Mexico coast Sept. 27, quickly made for the Carolinas. The storm dropped ...