Raise the funny factor of this poem by reading it to your kids in a silly voice. This short quatrain was a hit in 1895, when Gelett Burgess first published his now-famous poem for kids. Despite ...

There's even a "Nostradamus For Dummies." In the text of his book, each four-line block, called a quatrain, attempts to predict the future. While logic might suggest Nostradamus' claims could ...

On September 28, Chief Minister Shinde, accompanied by Deputy Chief Ministers Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar, inaugurated ...

Finally, after nearly two works of prayer and ritual, the Bavarian Capuchin Brother Theophilius Reisinger was able to ...

Krauss builds a simplified version of a pantoum: rather than the second and fourth lines of each quatrain becoming the first and third of the following, the third phrase in the sequence becomes ...

Renowned writer Nick Twinamatsiko tapped into this universality to write his first book of verse, Till The Promised Land and ...

The Versailles gardens continue to bloom centuries after the collapse of the French monarchy—but some notable features no ...

His technique varies too, with a norm of broad-shouldered, no-nonsense free verse interspersed with quatrain, sonnet, pantoum, and haibun, a Japanese hybrid of verse and prose... Gloria establishes ...

Chang, L.X. (2024) The Exploration of Li Bai’s Carefree and Loneliness from “Night Thoughts”. Open Access Library Journal, 11, 1-6. doi: 10.4236/oalib.1112322 .

Hello and hi to another week of “No Skips,” a column where I go over albums in need of recognition that also have no skippable songs. David Thomas Broughton’s “The Complete Guide to Insufficiency” ...