Some Love Poems Have Happy Endings, Others Not So Much, by Lou Orfanella

Poetry, chapbook, 28 pages, from Bottlecap Features.

Love has been a topic of poetry since the birth of the genre. It has been written about in works that form the canon of required reading for a liberal education. It has been the basis for countless clichéd messages in generations of greeting cards. Love tugs at the heartstrings and guides the human condition, often kicking logic to the curb.

Some Love Poems Have Happy Endings, Others Not So Much considers love from different angles and respects its many facets. Opposites attract as well as those with much in common. Unhappy results have as much to teach as the traditionally sought after happy endings. Happy or sad, everlasting or fleeting, in the end love is all we really have.

Lou Orfanella, a New York based teacher, writer, and workshop facilitator who has also worked as a broadcast and print journalist, is the author of more than twenty books and chapbooks of poetry, fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, and drama including most recently Single A Serenade: A Novel, Radical Acceptance: Poems, Unexpected Guests: Poems That Arrived Without Warning, The Fundamental Things Apply: A Novella, and New York Dispatches: New and Selected Stories. He has published over 100 articles, essays, columns, reviews and poems in numerous regional and national magazines, newspapers, and journals including The New York Daily News, College Bound, English Journal, World Hunger Year Magazine, Discoveries, Teacher Magazine, and New York Teacher. He holds degrees from Columbia University and Fordham University. He has presented scores of public readings of his work and offers individual and group writing workshops.