TODAY IS International Kissing Day, an unofficial holiday celebrating all things love. Here are the best messages, poems and greetings to send your loved one today.

Arts & Academe’s poetry editor, Lisa Russ Spaar, notes:. It is through the mouth, the portal of our earliest cries of outrage and hunger, that humans first “know” the world: the sustaining ...

we were kissing. I do not know why. I do not know which of us started the kissing. That’s the only poem inside of which we’ve kissed and I wrote it. I would like to kiss you more often in poems but ...

Kiss Off: Poems to Set You Free. Warner Books, $14.95 (232pp) ISBN 978-0-446-69028-7. And when you've had enough and need to say goodbye to all that, there's Kiss Off: Poems to Set You Free ...

Poems by Settie Lee and Ella “Bubbles” Zipperer were selected to be transformed into music in the first creative collaboration between Deep Center and the highly-esteemed VOICE Festival, with ...