A POPULAR Limerick poetry festival is set to return for its 13th year this April, bringing the power and the pleasure of the ...

And learned a few things they’d not known, see? Full disclosure: We wrote that one. And it’s true that the word poetry doesn’t necessarily bring fun and laughter to mind. The exception to the rule?

Is there a higher poetic form than the limerick? Of course there is. The limerick is the corny uncle of the poetry world, the one you hope doesn’t drink too much at Thanksgiving and embarrass ...

The Citizen's recent article of Auburnian James Delaney's 11th Spring Season of Outstanding Poetry Readings, prompts this poetic limerick. Paraphrasing an English poem: ...

A bit less than 200 years ago, Edward Lear sat down somewhere in England and wrote a particular series of poems in a particular style that eventually was dubbed “limerick style.” As an isolated event, ...