English spelling is a crazy mess, but it’s a mess that makes sense if you look at the history of how it got that way. Writing changes much more slowly than speech, so often our spelling reflects older ...

It’s time to rhyme. Take a look and find the kind that sounds sublime. Limericks are funny, five-lined poems. They follow an AABBA rhyming pattern, meaning that the first, second and fifth lines rhyme ...

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My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Timothy Rasinski, who lives in Stow, Ohio. Tim was told he was a good writer during his master’s degree program. However, his writing is not poetry, but ...