Writing your own funny roses-are-red poems is easier than you might think. All it takes is some free time and a bit of creativity. First, pick a theme you want to focus on for your joke.

I managed to dredge up five — count ‘em! — poems, both by great writers and by random people on the Internet, that will hopefully make your dad laugh instead this Father’s Day.

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Janet Wong, who lives in Gig Harbor, Washington. Janet is a graduate of Yale Law School and former lawyer who switched careers to become a children ...

In essays, weekly poems, and books, the writer Calvin Trillin has turned a humorous eye on topics from the news, as well as his life, for the last forty years. Now a new book, Quite Enough of ...

This new translation of Beowulf brings the poem to profane, funny, hot-blooded life. This moment demands more than headlines. In a time of noise, confusion, and spin, ...

Dorothy Parker's posthumously published collection is Poems; Camilla Barnes' debut novel is The Usual Desire to Kill. Both affirm: sharp humor can be grounded in pain.