A "crown jewel" of this month's Yiddish New York Festival is sure to be the special pre-launch event for upcoming book, JEWels - Teasing Out the Poetry in Jewish Humor and Storytelling. Presented by ...

But the men! Whoa! Less reading than performance art, spoken word, with props. Last night's Readings for Writers (holiday edition), coordinated and emceed, as usual, by St. Paul Poet Laureate Carol ...

The very first thing I ever read by David Kirby was “I figure poetry is a way of beating the odds.” It’s the first sentence to his 1989 book, Writing Poetry, and it made me laugh out loud. Looking ...

When we were both young and unknown poets, Patricia Lockwood had a blog with the tagline “Poems Are Jokes.” For years, this phrase has come back to me, when I hear an especially poetic joke or read an ...

Let's compare scores. In Thailand, a python had a wrestling match with a penis. In Myanmar, a dissenting poet was punished for a poem allegedly written on his penis. In the Philippines, the ...

To judge by the crowds this weekend in Edgerton Park, Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is still an excellent draw. The plot is simple and familiar: two young people fall in love at first sight, but a ...

Poems telling old stale jokes. Today’s, howe’er, are faves of mine ... (Rude and cheeky, by design.) The Choice To a savage land two men of God did travel. They sought to give to heathens Christian ...

Perhaps bringing in Hitler was going a bit far. Perhaps suggesting that the people who were in charge of corporate governance, and who seemed to be very defensive, and who seemed to be saying things ...

Queen Camilla poked fun at her age as she was joined by Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho for a special conversation on the importance poetry plays in the development of children. In a video filmed to ...