I hope you are enjoying our Sunday column, “Poetry from Daily Life,” which provides each week the wit, wisdom, and experiences of poets and authorities on poetry. By offering such a rich mix of voices ...

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, the latest Villanova Theatre production aims to tell a farcical love story … in rhyming couplets. “The School for Lies” is David Ives’ off-color tribute to Moliere’s ...

If public speaking is a fear for some, try doing it under a spotlight on stage, in rhyming couplets, with cogent ideas and narrative, and the threat of being booed off the stage if you’re not ...

The Lake Park High School theater department kicks off their 2025-26 season with the children’s play, “Hamlet Hears a Who,” at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 17, in the East Campus Dice Auditorium, 500 S.

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Now the motion is even more organized and precise, even with the imperfect rhymes. Which rhyme scheme should you use? It depends on what you’re saying. If the lyric’s emotion deals with uncertainty or ...

After his 2022 essay collection On Browsing, a melancholy homage to material media (CDs, LPs, DVDs and print), Jason Guriel has returned to verse. The Full-Moon Whaling Chronicles, his second novel in ...

The first sound you hear in Stage West’s production of The Heir Apparent is a tremendous fart. That could serve as commentary on the rest of the play. Playwright David Ives’ flatulent adaptation of a ...