Here's how to help the poemless: go to the poetry shelves in the children’s section of your local library. Grab a book by ...

In her debut poetry collection, GREAT EXODUS, GREAT WALL, GREAT PARTY (American Poetry Review, 86 pp., paper, $15), Chessy Normile is often funny — “All the books on time / are pretty good ...

After reading this piece, you might have learned what funny roses are red, violets are blue jokes, poems, and memes are. You can now compose a couple to entertain your friends, family, and strangers.

You may recall learning about limericks (or even writing a few of your own) in grade school. If you’re all grown up now and you love cracking short jokes or writing funny poems, why not add a ...

Dear reader: Please do not cancel your subscriptions to this fine newspaper, or otherwise punish it. Its editors have not ordered me to rewrite corny jokes into poetry; I do it of my own volition ...

Cheeky jokes and poems for Valentine’s Day . From the outright dirty to the naughty – here are some jokes you can include in your cards to inject a bit of humour into your Valentine’s Day.

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Allan Wolf, who lives in Asheville, North Carollina. Allan discovered the ...

Kevin Casper. BPR 48 | 2021. The very first thing I ever read by David Kirby was “I figure poetry is a way of beating the odds.” It’s the first sentence to his 1989 book, Writing Poetry, and it made ...

John Koethe spent decades as a philosophy professor. The poems in his latest collection, “Cemeteries and Galaxies,” are full ...

Using metaphors — saying one thing is like another — is a way of finding unexpected connections in the world, poet Allan Wolf writes.