But poetry isn't just for adults. In fact, there are plenty of poems for kids that ... But you may not be aware that he was truly a master of quirky poems. Raise the funny factor of this poem by ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Here’s how he describes the experience in the new poem “How I Wrote Certain of My Books”: What is that? Borzutzky obviously means to be funny — he is a satirist, after all — but he’s ...

An acrostic is a poem where the first letter of each line spells out a word, vertically. A limerick is a funny five-line poem with a rhyme scheme AABBA. A haiku has three lines, which in total ...

In its 20th anniversary, The Louisiana Book Festival honored the authorship and artistry of Louisiana’s literary heritage ...

A savvy man was sent over $300 worth of freebies from his favorite brands — after he wrote them poems. Andrew Cunningham, 29, spotted a tip online which suggested supermarkets send free gifts if ...

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 ...