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Dick Monroe explores new forms of writing by sharing an Irish-style limerick collection to celebrate St. Patrick's Day.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What is a limerick? These silly poems make a really fun writing exercise. Limericks are a fun and timeless way to tell short, ...

And learned a few things they’d not known, see? Full disclosure: We wrote that one. And it’s true that the word poetry doesn’t necessarily bring fun and laughter to mind. The exception to the rule?

Calling all teenage limerick-lovers! The Beaverton City Library's hosting a poetry contest. (The Oregonian, 2002) April is national poetry month, and the Beaverton City Library is hosting its annual ...

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 ...

A bit less than 200 years ago, Edward Lear sat down somewhere in England and wrote a particular series of poems in a particular style that eventually was dubbed “limerick style.” As an isolated event, ...

One man’s joke has become his mission: to give each word a rhyming definition. Chris Strolin was teasing English buffs in an online forum years ago when he said the dictionary should be rewritten in ...