MIDDLETOWN -- John Popielaski was a college student majoring in pre-law when a vehicle mishap sent him to the hospital with a skull fracture. After that, he began writing poetry. "No kidding," he says ...

Courtesy photoFormer Andover resident Deborah Warren will read her poetry on Saturday at the Newburyport Public Library, part of the Powow River Poets Reading Series. She will be joined by fellow poet ...

Carl Rakosi, a prolific poet whose nonrhyming narratives were precise, perceptive and pithy commentaries on life as he witnessed it, has died at the age of 100. Rakosi, cited as a major American poet ...

This week’s guest on Poetry in Daily Life is Nile Stanley, PhD, who lives in Jacksonville, Florida. A teacher educator, artist-in-residence, and researcher for 36 years, he has been on a mission to ...

WIT and humor are such elemental, fundamental things, that it has always been found difficult to analyze them. Upon some points, however, those who have essayed this puzzling task agree, for they all ...

Here are more examples of wit and humor: Late relative: One who never arrives on time. Overweight: Formerly known as “fat.” Rebel Without a Cause: A James Dean movie or the South just lost the war. A ...

Jul. 16—Wit, humor and satire twist, weave and backflip through the history of art like serpents navigating quicksand. Artists have turned funny throughout photography, prints, painting, ceramics and ...

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IT is dubious wisdom to walk in the footprints of a giant, and to stumble with little steps along the road where his great strides were taken. Yet many years have passed since Hazlitt trod this way; ...

To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: … a time to weep and a time to laugh; … (Eccles. 3:1,4). Augustus Toplady, the Calvinist, and John Wesley, the Arminian, ...