This is the third in a five-part series about the value of verse in the 21st century. Read the first two installments here and here. My friend and fellow graduate student David, often taken to coining ...

“Roses are red / violets are blue,” probably the most famous and basic opening in all of poetry, is a perfect fit for Twitter. It clocks in at far fewer than 140 characters and is formulaic enough to ...

The best running jokes on the internet are simple. They’re easy enough to replicate, and getting into them doesn’t require much thought beyond the surface level. (Example: the pure beauty of the ...