This limerick example focuses on another old person, this time in Nice, France. It's one of those funny poems that may have you thinking about your favorite animal jokes. Lear's limerick poem ...

A mixed-bag on purpose, the volume spans prose, poetry and drama then looks at the new in an uncertain era of change ...

Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” by Adrienne Rich, is a blazing portrait of an artist and her work. Our critic A.O. Scott admires its ...

Poet and author Charles Ghigna shares the story of a poem he wrote after waking up to his infant son's babbling over a nursery monitor.

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. Maybe that’s why poetry has even taken over ...

As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well. I often hear from peers and students that ...

so I scribbled a limerick: Garrison Keillor is the author of many books; his latest, “Cheerfulness,” reflects on a simple virtue to cope in a stressful era.

Animals are disappearing at hundreds of times the normal rate, primarily because of shrinking habitats. Their biggest threat: humans. No trace of the wild South China tiger, Panthera tigris ...

Ion. - Ion is right. Got it in three. Excuse me for 15. What bovine animal with a common three letter name is an important part of a rural life on the Tibetan plateau, its milk is used to make a ...