Bal­tasar de Alcázar (1530−1606) is one of the few poets of his day who con­sis­tently allowed him­self to be funny. He is sometimes...

I came across this nursery rhyme recently while reading the The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes to my son. It's a lot of fun to read...

There's a light verse form known as the double-dactyl, and strict adherence to the form requires that one of the lines consist of a...

I came across this nursery rhyme recently while reading the The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes to my son. It's a lot of fun to read...

Here's a children's poem of mine that appeared in the online magazine, Bumbershoot, which was brilliantly edited by Kate Bernadette...

FUN If fun were not fun you can bet I for one would rather have no fun at all, for fun once begun till the moment it's done means that...

It may strike you as strange, but it's true: when you breathe, you breathe out CO2, and so it may be that some plant or some tree made a...