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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(MENAFN- EIN Presswire) Book Pre-launch Event Hosted by Flash Rosenberg with Bob Mankoff, Bob Holman, Rabbi Edward Schecter, Esther Cohen, Lisa Lipkin, Zev Shanken, Steve Zeitlin NEW YORK, NY, USA, ...

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 ...

Poetry, a literary art combined with the sounds of a rhythmic beat expressed by the most defined artistic writers, touches the heart and emotions. The manifestation of a poet reveals the most ...

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 ...

With its token £5,750-a-year salary and case of wine for your trouble, our Poet Laureateship has long been what the outgoing laureate Andrew Motion has affectionately termed an "honorary joke". From ...