April is National Poetry Month, and one author has come up with a way to make poetry fun for kids. Karen Jo Shapiro has taken the rhythms of famous poems and turned them into poetic parodies for ...

Dennis Lee on his new book for kids, Elvis and Melvis, which passes muster with poets and children alike. You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account.

You may recall learning about limericks (or even writing a few of your own) in grade school. If you’re all grown up now and you love cracking short jokes or writing funny poems, why not add a few ...

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 ...

NOT MUCH FUN. The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker. Compiled and with an introduction by Stuart Y. Silverstein. Scribner, $16, paperback. RECENTLY I was asked to judge the annual Willard R. Espy Light ...

Tell the kids who are selling lines to eff off, through the letterbox. If you say it in Irish it takes the harm out of it. Tell them you don't believe them about the first prize 'a part of a goat will ...

When I prepare myself for bed. As a teenager, I was taught that poetry should be more serious. It was art – and art took itself seriously. Even now, poems designed to make us laugh are often dismissed ...

NOT MUCH FUN: THE LOST POEMS OF DOROTHY PARKER Edited by Stuart Y. Silverstein Scribner, $16, 272 pages REVIEWED BY MARTIN RUBIN If there had been a poet laureate of the United States in her lifetime, ...