The funny poems also just make kids happy, and I believe that the best learning takes place when we have happy kids. Here’s ...

Paul Engle noted that “poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power.” As if by magic, poetry books capture feelings that are often elusive and put into words our deepest pain and ...

Shakespeare reading "Hamlet" to his family, circa 1600. Most people confuse a sonnet and a poem, but they have slight differences. A sonnet is a specific type of poem, typically consisting of 14 ...

Poe’s writing career began in the early 1820s with the release of “Tamerlane and Other Poems,” a collection of poems that included the well-thought-out 403-line poem “Tamerlane,” which ...

There are many things that are extraordinary about the decision by the Government earlier this year to refuse Levi Bellfield ...

An acrostic is a poem where the first letter of each line spells out a word, vertically. A limerick is a funny five-line poem with a rhyme scheme AABBA. A haiku has three lines, which in total ...

Poetry is close to my heart. I would be lost without its very specific magic, its ability to spark wonder and shock and to open up fresh vistas on life in God. But as W. H. Auden famously says in his ...

The funny poems also just make kids happy ... Here’s one of the sillier (and yes, most stupid) poems from the newest anthology created by my colleague Sylvia Vardell and me, "Clara’s Kooky ...