In an era of climate uncertainty, Irish weather lore points to something we risk losing: the habit of paying attention to what nature is telling us, writes Karol Mullaney Dignam ...

With new translations from the long-extinct Hittite language, UChicago Ph.D. student Naomi Harris brought verses from clay ...

To train these models, we created a dataset of 300 examples (150 limericks and 150 non-limericks). We got limericks and non-limericks from sources referenced below. Limericks covered various themes ...

Plenty of people in baseball have written a book. There’s Jim Bouton’s Ball Four, Josh Lewin’s You Never Forget Your First – hell, even actress Alyssa Milano has written a book about baseball. Eric ...

It was World Poetry Day on 21 March. To mark the event I read some poetic bangers to the dog (he enjoyed Eleanor Farjeon, ...

When The Advocate decided to host a limerick competition in memory of longtime columnist Smiley Anders — who died in May after more than 50 years of writing for the paper — we knew readers would be ...

Smiley Anders loved a limerick. In his honor, we're hosting the Smiley Anders Limerick Contest. The deadline for submissions is midnight July 31. Submit limericks to [email protected]. Winners ...

My mouth is locked like a zipper. A victim without a whimper. Have something on your mind? Send to [email protected] or click here to submit via any web browser. Letters under 200 words have the best ...

Any time the first 70-degree day of the year falls on a weekend, it can feel like a rare treat. Even rarer is that these temperatures, which broke records across Western Washington last weekend, ...

With the art of limerick, we wield pen like sword Perhaps we’ll strike a perfect Valentine’s chord From our hearts we declare True devotion is rare Our only love? —The Crimson Editorial Board I think ...