Poem lovers who appreciate humor in their poetry, especially with a side of ... (1609) Sonnet 116 is arguably one of the most famous love-themed poems ever written. In this poem, Shakespeare ...

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Luís de Camões is world famous as the author of the great Renaissance epic The Lusíads, but his large and equally great body of lyric poetry is still almost completely unknown outside his native ...

The poet Benjamin Zephaniah describes how he used to think nurses were women, police were men and poets were boring, until he became one of them! He then performs his humorous poem ‘Clever ...

Smith said. MindShift asked Smith and other educators to share some of the poems by living poets that have resonated with their students. Here are their highlights. “It Is Maybe Time to Admit That ...

Translating poetry in such a way that the humorous nature of a poem remains intact is even more difficult, even though it is precisely jokes that can encourage children to read more, notes Ph.D ...

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 ...

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 ...

The indie-pop singer-songwriter makes her literary debut with ‘Eat the World,’ an insightful and introspective collection ...

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