Nobody writes vampire poems because vampires are scary. People write them because vampires are lonely. Four hundred years of watching everyone you love grow old and die does something to a heart — even an undead one — and that is exactly the kind of ache poetry was built for. These fifteen original vampire poems…
October has always been my favorite month to be in love — or at least to write about it. The nights get longer, the candles get lit earlier, and the smell of woodsmoke makes even ordinary affection feel a little enchanted. That’s exactly why I sat down and wrote these halloween love poems: short, dark-romantic…
I wrote my first gothic poetry attempt at seventeen and it was, frankly, a mess: a raven, a graveyard, the word “nevermore” — every cliché lined up like mourners at a funeral. It had all the furniture of gothic poetry and none of the feeling. That is the trap most of us fall into. We…
