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Eleanor Barkhorn - Eleanor Barkhorn is an associate editor at The Atlantic, where she edits the Entertainment channel.
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Eleanor Barkhorn is an associate editor at The Atlantic, where she edits the Entertainment channel. She is a former producer for the Food channel. Before coming to The Atlantic, she was a reporter at the Delta Democrat Times in Greenville, Mississippi. She graduated from Princeton University, where she majored in American literature and wrote her senior thesis about Oprah's Book Club. For her first two years out of college, she taught high school English with the Teach For America program.
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11 Love Poems Published in The Atlantic

By Eleanor Barkhorn

Feb 14 2012, 10:44 AM ET Comment

There are songs about love, movies about love, paintings made in honor of love. But no art form captures the joy and the longing, the pain and the disappointment of love better than poetry. Since its founding in 1857, The Atlantic has published several poems about romance, marriage, and desire. Here is a selection of 11 highlights from the archive. We've featured the opening lines of each poem, and you can click through to read the entire work:



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