I’m pretty sure that for the rest of our lives, we will remember everything as having happened either before or after COVID. The year 2020 has […]
It has long been my dream, and probably always will be, to write a limerick that can save the world. But to save the world from […]
When it comes to sizing up an aphorism of pre-Socratic philosophy or summing up a treatise of German idealism, nothing beats a pithy limerick. But sometimes […]
The limerick is such a simple form of poetry. And yet its rigid structure makes it surprisingly difficult to write a good one. But what’s even […]
This lyrical retelling of Herman Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener” is part of an ongoing series, entitled Simply Gothic. With these extended poems, I’m reworking classic works […]
Lately I’ve gotten a serious number of requests for limericks about feet and shoes. I’m really not sure how to explain the surge of interest in […]