But you may not be aware that he was truly a master of quirky poems. Raise the funny factor of this poem by reading it to your kids in a silly voice. This short quatrain was a hit in 1895, when Gelett ...

Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems ... kids that will make you think as much as they’ll make you laugh ...

We present an extract from The Irish Writers Handbook 2025, the essential guide to writing and getting published, with ...

Not long after, while writing funny songs for The Rosie O ... a picnic poem (or a poem written by a mouse), and a short, decisive poem. All from kids who had most likely thought that poetry ...

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 ...

"However, what many may not realize is how heavy the toll is on children and future generations. Here, a collection of art and poems about the climate crisis written by children around the world.

He then performs his humorous poem ‘Clever Trevor’, which describes how a footballer scores and celebrates a goal. It also expresses confusion about how the footballer acts and what he does.

The Shadow: Poems for the Children of Gaza (Malta: Horizons, October 2024) is a collection of 42 original poems (21 by Ahmed Miqdad, 21 by John P. Portelli) which depict the state of being of the two ...

MacAskill is the author of three previously published poetry collections, including Shadow Blight , winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for poetry in 2022. Her fiction has previously ...

Vincent van Gogh, “Self-Portrait” (1889) (image courtesy the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC) Editor’s Note: The following poems have been excerpted with permission and adapted ...

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

It was a full house for the launch of Pat Mullan’s debut short story and poetry collection at Naas Library and Heritage ...