There are many reasons why poems serve as good reading material for children, which is why we created a list of funny poems for children. Those reasons include the fact that poetry helps develop a ...

Basking Shark To stub an oar on a rock where none should be, To have it rise with a slounge out of the sea Is a thing that happened once (too often) to me. But not too often – though enough. I count ...

One of Topekan Ruth Maus' favorite sayings comes from a Chinese proverb: "The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." That single step for Maus started with auditing a class at ...

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 ...

Yellow Flower Gills Me Whole exhibits a perspective that seems to sit outside of time. At times, Ghosh’s poems shift between humorous, profound, risqué and sensual. Others suggest a profound ...

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 ...

Since having kids, I've tried to enforce a rule to never get mad at my husband while he's unconscious. I'd be up in the middle of the night nursing a baby, and he'd be sound asleep. I'd be up changing ...

If you've tried talking and writing and protesting and still can't seem to get people to accept you breastfeeding in public, perhaps you need to try a Dr. Seussian limerick? That's what one mom, ...