Lear's limerick poem exudes the hilarity of a good duck joke, while being a funny nursery rhyme in one. Lear also wrote limericks set closer to home, like this one about Ryde, on the Isle of Wight ...

Writer Alan Katz didn't think poetry was for him. Then he wrote a book or two and learned that poetry is for everyone.

Where to read: You can read “The Haunted Palace” at Poetry Foundation. Poe’s The Oval Portrait is one of his shorter stories, but one whose intensity is not limited by length. The short ...

These extremely short pieces, published in 2018, fall somewhere between fierce poetry and story. The 300 stories are neither plotted nor linear; instead, you’ll feel as if you’ve walked into a ...

Paul Engle noted that “poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power.” As if by magic, poetry books capture feelings that are often elusive and put into words our deepest pain and ...

Vincent van Gogh, “Self-Portrait” (1889) (image courtesy the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC) Editor’s Note: The following poems have been excerpted with permission and adapted ...

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Short-form data and analysis from Pew Research Center writers and social scientists. To view all our reports and publications, visit our main Publications page. Just 13 UN member countries are ...

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