Many a couple has enjoyed a midnight kiss at New Year. That’s Liz Lochhead’s inspiration for View of Scotland/Love Poem. The poem combines Lochhead’s memories of Hogmanay in the 1950s and a ...

How do you make the 10,000th kiss romantic and new? As much as we may want—or need—to write a love poem, it’s often difficult to find a language that adequately expresses the way we feel.

Hear Martin Galvin read this poem (in RealAudio). (For help, see a note about the audio.) Like totally kept my kiss list going? Weird. Martin Galvin is a poet who lives in Maryland. His poems have ...