Poet J. K. Kennedy discusses balancing humor with anxiety and/or grief in poetry and shares five tricks she uses to illustrate her emotions without letting them turn into quicksand for the reader.

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 ...

Former Missouri Poet Laureate William Trowbridge's "seriocomic" ode to Missouri includes plenty of references you'll ...

Poet, author and editor-in-chief of Gnashing Teeth Publishing, Karen Cline-Tardiff, of Norman, will be featured at Wednesday ...

Bound to elicit a grin is Ng Yi-sheng’s humorous Roti Chatter, a hark back to the Republic’s multicultural heritage. He ...

Durcan has helped to change our perception of what a poem ought to be. He’s a poet who makes it his business to chip away at ...

For amending Constitution One needs majority's crown Till then the h Can always water it down Bleeding hearts for the poor ...

The character of Bigfoot first emerged in a surprising way. “The first Bigfoot poem I ever wrote was actually an anniversary ...

However, the obsession of Punjabi humorous poetry with miso- gynistic themes, aired on media, is seriously hurting the cause of the language. Such poetry unmistakably hovers around the traditional ...

The recent episode of Kaun Banega Crorepati 16 welcomed Bollywood star Varun Dhawan, who joined the legendary host Amitabh ...