Considering February is the month of love, what better time could there be to write a love letter or poem to a beloved? To be loved and nurtured is a universal need. Being loved creates feelings of ...

Committing one’s emotions to paper demonstrates an innate need for written expression. Words are less cheap, more precious. But the love letter has gone the way of good manners. People simply won’t ...

When I first started seeing my husband, I rebuked him for giving me a Valentine’s Day card with the salutation, “Dearest Rowan”. I explained patiently that there were other, more suitable greetings, ...

Mahmoud Darwish, Palestine’s greatest modern poet, fell in love with a Jewish Israeli woman named Tamar Ben-Ami in the early 1960s – a relationship that inspired some of the most celebrated Arabic ...

Nearly a century later, her granddaughter, now a sociologist at Whitman College and author of “Love Letters: Saving Romance in the Digital Age,” has saved several of those letters. While they often ...