My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Alan Katz, who lives in Milford, Connecticut. Alan says, “I’ve been writing since Miss Gordon showed me the alphabet in kindergarten. But I’ve been a ...
That ain’t been there before. Of course, poetry doesn’t have to be juvenile to be funny. Nor must it be raunchy, although a limerick might rely on bawdiness. A poem needn’t even make the reader guffaw ...
Megan Fernandes is a writer and assistant professor at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, where she teaches courses on poetry and environmental writing. She shares her Brief But Spectacular take on ...
Critically acclaimed writer Sarah +Galvin turned her Thursday evening performance at McCormack Family Theater into a half-poetry reading, half-stand-up comedy show, pausing between every few pieces to ...
Live from your computer screens, it's Code Switch! Guest hosts Ayesha Rascoe and Denice Frohman joined us to talk poetry and humor with special guests Paul Tran and Hari Kondabolu. Then, Ayesha and ...
About 20 years ago, Will King III hovered over the sign-in list at an open mic. He scanned the stage names, realizing he didn't have one himself. So he thought up something clever on the spot: jus ...
Winning Writers, a Northampton company providing online resources to poets and writers, announced the winners of its 20th Annual Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest. Anonymous U.S.-based writer Koss ...
In an interview for The Booker Prizes website, Shehan Karunatilaka says he first started thinking about his novel The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida after the end of the Sri Lankan civil war in 2009, ...
Megan Fernandes is a writer and assistant professor at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, where she teaches courses on poetry and environmental writing. She shares her Brief But Spectacular take on ...
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