Themes of longing, loneliness and the power of love — romantic, familial and self-love — are constant throughout Maria Shriver’s poetry collection.

When my father was living his last years in a nursing facility, there was a woman there who spoke no English. I don’t know ...

The poems that speak to us so strongly that we return to them in times of confusion, fear, loneliness or joy. Some of us might choose to scribble a couple of lines on a Post It and stick it to the ...