For the last eight years, Mancos resident and former Fort Lewis College education professor Lindy Simmons has produced an original two-hour Thursday night variety show involving day performers ...

SUBJECTS: English YEARS: F–2, 3–4 Do all poems have to rhyme? Matt from the Sydney Story Factory explains how rhyme can be used in poetry to achieve certain effects, but sometimes deliberately ...

Poetry used to have rhyme and rhythm: the reason both words are hard to spell is that they derive from ancient Greek. The oldest recorded rhyme is from China in the 10th century BC.

Father's Day is almost here, and if your dad lives far or near, you might get him a card or treat, or fire up the grill for some bacon-wrapped meat, but if you're more the pensive type, or can ...

Learn about the use of rhyming words and rhyme schemes in poetry.

Once again, the poets came through. When we asked readers to submit opinionated poems for this year’s Op-Ed poetry pages, we heard from nearly 1,000 of you. Your poems dealt with just about ...

It might not have seemed like it at the time, but all those schoolyard rhymes you memorized as a kid were poems in disguise.

"Minnesota Blue," a wistful poem that celebrates the state's golden fields of wheat and corn shimmering in the early morn, was written by a singer-songwriter in Hawaii who left Minnesota in 1958 ...

Against a tide of weariness, I have two pieces of advice on this Earth Day, embedded in National Poetry Month: start a garden, and read or write a poem, writes Tess Taylor.

It’s Always the Time for Meter and Rhyme My mother was averse to memorization of poetry, but I see it differently.