And we left it at that. The truth is, while I admired Rose’s serious, thoughtful poems, I just didn’t think poetry was for me. Not long after, while writing funny songs for The Rosie O ...

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Two poets who are known and well-loved in mid-Missouri recently released dispatches into the wider world. Each shows off a key facet of their literary personalities and, in their way, different ...

An imagined chat with Pooh commemorates the 100th anniversary of A.A. Milne’s “When We Were Very Young.” David Orr is the ...

You can usually stir up debate by comparing song lyrics to poetry. As a publication that ... that make a great song just as worthy as a great poem, even as these two separate types of artistic ...

Ok ok, so we're not claiming to be Ed Gamble or James Acaster, but sometimes you just need a funny joke up your sleeve. Maybe a first date just got a bit awkward and you need a a classic dad joke ...

I’m sure somewhere in the annals of this blog series I’ve suggested that laughter and humor infiltrate almost every facet of our lives. They appear in our exchanges at home with family ...

I think he means that for all the discipline and skill a poet can bring to wrangling with words, poetry will always be allusive, will always gesture toward mystery. It presents a worked-up example of ...

It’s beginning to look a lot like Swift-mas: Taylor Swift has a couple of major releases on the way for the holiday season — a first-time CD/vinyl edition of “The Tortured Poets Department ...