Funny Books: NPR's Readers Pick ... We know you could use a laugh right now — and luckily, several thousand of you told us all about the books, stories and poems that make you laugh.

The funny poems also just make kids happy, ... (Like many of the poems in this book, this poem was written by me “in the voice of Clara.”) The Morning Rush Has Mom in a Tizzy.

Book Review: 'Time Is A Toy' Michael Benedikt was an exemplary poet, ... Wise, Funny Poems, Saved From The Trash Bin In The Nick Of 'Time' February 21, 2014 7:00 AM ET. By .

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

The funny poems also just make kids happy, ... (Like many of the poems in this book, this poem was written by me “in the voice of Clara.”) The Morning Rush Has Mom in a Tizzy.

Poetry expresses the feelings we struggle to convey. Open any poetry book for proof: You’ll find love poems for romantic moments, silly rhymes for kids and limericks for when you feel like laughing.

From classics to modern masterpieces, these great poetry books—recommended by poets themselves—belong on your bookshelf.

I have written poetry since I was about 11. I still have a few of those poems. One (or a hundred) was about a boy, one about my little sister, one about death, and one was full of silly nonsense.

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 ...

Funny poems are tough to pull off. I’m not talking here about poems with humor in them; almost every good poem has at least one funny thing smuggled inside it. No, I mean poems with punch lines ...

One of my strongest poetry memories took place at a black-tie dinner at the Library of Congress where George W. Bush introduced his wife Laura with a poem. He explained that she had been away on a ...