This is the third in a five-part series about the value of verse in the 21st century. Read the first two installments here and here. My friend and fellow graduate student David, often taken to coining ...
“Roses are red / violets are blue,” probably the most famous and basic opening in all of poetry, is a perfect fit for Twitter. It clocks in at far fewer than 140 characters and is formulaic enough to ...
Leave it to Twitter to butcher one of the most tried and true poems attached to Valentine’s Day. “Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet, and so are you.” So goes the rhyme that feels about ...