LARNACA, Cyprus — Lyrical duelists in Cyprus spit rhymes in head-to-head contests, keeping alive a tradition known as ...

That terrifying chant in the '28 Years Later' trailer and film is a 122-year-old Rudyard Kipling poem: director Danny Boyle ...

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A.O. Scott ponders the specific gravity and unlikely grace of Kay Ryan’s “Turtle.” And we have a game to help you memorize it ...

You wouldn’t usually expect biologists to turn to ancient literature, much less poetry, for their answers. However, in order ...

The poem sings its reader a melancholy song of doubt and hesitation in scattered, interlocking rhymes. The best lines ring in the reader’s head like a bell for days. In January, I saw my family and my ...

"The poetry community on Long Island is alive and vibrant ... For more information and to register, go to longbeachlibrary.org. While the rhyme and reason behind the festival is to wax poetic ...

An archive has revealed a handwritten copy of a 200-year-old poem originally written to prove rhyming is easy after an argument at a breakfast table. Marking World Poetry Day, Longleat in ...

It was filled with delightfully clever and funny rhymes, and the words ... hardcover (the dust jacket long gone) remains on my bookshelf with other great poetry books. As a poet myself now ...

But the classic poem also sparked a centuries-long controversy ... Maybe its appeal lies in its sing-song rhymes, so easy for both children and parents to memorize, or the idea of a rotund ...

Knowing how important phonemic awareness is, I created a mini-poetry unit based around rhyming and generating adjectives ... but the adjectives could be serious or silly, as long as they were relevant ...