If you’re unfamiliar with the limerick (or can’t keep straight the different types of poems you learned about ... also rhyme. For example: “There once was a farmer from Leeds Who swallowed ...

The tradition goes back to 1613 when Trinity, still in its early 20s then, won the right to elect two MPs, part of King James I’s plan to pack the Irish House of Commons with Protestants and so end ...

In his beautiful poem ‘If’, Rudyard Kipling wrote ... to work day and night on flood alleviation. It was a manifest example of true patriotism. I, for one, would like the incoming Taoiseach ...

With its calm waters and picturesque shoreline, it’s the kind of place that makes you want to write poetry – even if your last attempt at verse was a limerick about your ... the building itself is a ...

To ashes and the smell of smoke.

FSU poetry professor James Kimbrell headlined The Jerome Stern Reading Series at The Bark, sharing work from his latest collection of poems.

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Here’s an example, in a poem called “Nicholson Baker & I,” from Catherine Barnett’s book “Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space”: “‘Open the second shutter/so that more ...

The first, second and fifth lines of a limerick rhyme. The same goes for the third and fourth lines.

By Karl Kirchwey Karl Kirchwey’s eighth book of poems, “Good Apothecary,” will ... re grown,” and being driven off course — for example, with a stranger who asks if you’ve ever been ...