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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Keep reading for 30 kids' poems—from ones written with kindergarteners in mind to short ones and long ones and some of the most ...

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 ...

This year my grandfather turned 90 and my family planned to celebrate with a big birthday bash. It's not often that my whole family comes together, and I was excited. But then the coronavirus pandemic ...

Humor and adventure permeates his poetry. During one of the Mahers’ vacations, they found a saying written on a piece of wood. It hangs behind the counter at Northside Tire, which his daughter Annette ...

Journal of Spanish Studies: Twentieth Century, Vol. 4, No. 3 (Winter, 1976), pp. 165-178 (14 pages) A study of several short poems by Octavio Paz attempts to show the functioning of humor as achieved ...

Love poems didn’t start as private confessions. For much of their history, they were closer to public performances—tools for politics, status, ...

An NPR photojournalist's grandfather's 90th birthday party, canceled due to COVID-19, inspired a poem — and his vow to stay 89. This year my grandfather turned 90 and my family planned to celebrate ...