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I hope you are enjoying our Sunday column, “Poetry from Daily Life,” which provides each week the wit, wisdom, and experiences of poets and authorities on poetry. By offering such a rich mix of voices ...

Now the motion is even more organized and precise, even with the imperfect rhymes. Which rhyme scheme should you use? It depends on what you’re saying. If the lyric’s emotion deals with uncertainty or ...

I’ve long been a fan of military rhyming couplets. I think they seem to be such an intriguing aspect of American military culture. Here, with a lot of help from my Task & Purpose colleagues, are some ...

You can make a novel out of just about anything these days: recipes, PowerPoint slides, e-mails, text messages. Still, not many novelists have turned to rhyming couplets. The novel is an expansive, ...

Richard Wilbur, the former U.S. poet laureate who turned 90 this year, is a master of rhyme—something few modern poets aspire to be. Wilbur has been publishing poems since he was eight years old, and ...

The Lake Park High School theater department kicks off their 2025-26 season with the children’s play, “Hamlet Hears a Who,” at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 17, in the East Campus Dice Auditorium, 500 S.

Whatever can be said about the paintings and drawings of Oliver Girling, they are never slick. Whether this rough, rude antislickness is deliberate (let's assume it is), or the product of a certain ...

The Oxford English Dictionary credits William Shakespeare with coining up to 2,000 words we use today. But linguists from Manchester have found that rappers, such as Eminem and London-based Akala, are ...

After his 2022 essay collection On Browsing, a melancholy homage to material media (CDs, LPs, DVDs and print), Jason Guriel has returned to verse. The Full-Moon Whaling Chronicles, his second novel in ...