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 ...
Manraj has done a top-notch job, this poem is incredibly well written. It's clear there has been a huge amount of thought put into the rhythm and rhyme. Not to mention how funny it is, it had us ...
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 ...
In the '90s rom-com French Kiss, Meg Ryan's character Kate humorously offers up the details of her devirginization at 18 years old with a jock named Jeff. The experience apparently included a basement ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...