I received this limerick in The Style Invitational’s Limerixicon contest, Week 1502. It’s pretty good — rhymes well, scans well — but like hundreds of other pretty good limericks I received, it didn’t ...

Maybe we shouldn't have been surprised by the overwhelming response to the Star Tribune's limerick contest, held in celebration of National Poetry Month in April. After all, during a limerick craze in ...

Tess Vigeland: It is, shall we say, a time of unpleasantness in this country. What better to soothe our senses than poetry? Yeah, except this poetry is about the debt ceiling. We can’t get away from ...

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