Here are two examples, one long, one short, from "bugs, poems about creeping things" (Wordsong, 2009). "The termite doesn’t eat the way it should. "It’s not its fault, its food all tastes like ...

There surely are going to be a lot of poems that one would miss out on. Maybe a better option would have been to generate a new poem after every hour or so. That would make staring at the clock ...

Consider the last two lines of Raleigh's "On the Cards and Dice" below: "An herald strange, the like was never born,/ Whose very beard is flesh, and mouth is horn." They give me a slight shiver still.

The first poem revealed, “To a Refractory Santa Claus,” is about Spain and “consists of two 11-line verses and pleads for escape from the cruelties of an English winter to the fresh fruit ...

The wardrobe is filled with linen, there are even moonbeams I can unfold. The roof has slipped back on the gables old trees march in from the cold. the beds are slept in again. Out of the air ...

Bentley would publish his first collection of clerihews Biography for Beginners in 1905, which included what is widely believed to be his first clerihew poem that he’d written at the age of 16 about ...

A landay is a couplet: a two-line poem passed mouth to mouth, ear to ear, among Pashtun people for at least 1,000 years. No-one knows for certain where landays come from.

As a sonnet, the poem contains 14 lines, divided into four four-line stanzas and a final rhyming couplet, which follow a strict rhyme scheme AABBCCDDEEFFGG: A hard, howling, tossing water scene.

In these moments, I like to feel the poem in my hands, so if I’m in between books, as I am now, I will grab a back copy of The New Yorker, or a ragged, fraying issue of American Poetry Review.