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The cover of the first Stern and Price Mad Libs book Mad Libs is a word game created by Leonard Stern and Roger Price. It consists of one player prompting others for a list of words to substitute for blanks in a story before reading aloud. The game is frequently played as a party game or as a pastime. It can be categorized as a phrasal template game. The game was invented in the United States ...
He visited schools in the United States and Europe, providing workshops for teachers and students. At home he continued to write books. Janeczko was a member of the National Council of Teachers of English, Educators for Social Responsibility, New England Association of Teachers of English, and Maine Teachers of Language Arts.
Poetry School runs the Ginkgo Prize for Ecopoetry (formerly the Resurgence Prize), a major international award for poems embracing ecological themes, with a first prize of £5,000. [ 5 ] The Resurgence Prize was founded in 2014 by poet Andrew Motion and actress and activist Joanna Lumley . [ 6 ]
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "New York School poets" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total ...
I made a funny! I say it's spinach; I see nothing! I hear nothing! I know nothing! I told him, 'Julie, don't go!' I told him, "Julie, don't go!" I wanna dip my balls in it! I was reading a book the other day; I yam what I yam! I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords; I'll be in my bunk; I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today
A clerihew (/ ˈ k l ɛr ɪ h j uː /) is a whimsical, four-line biographical poem of a type invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley.The first line is the name of the poem's subject, usually a famous person, and the remainder puts the subject in an absurd light or reveals something unknown or spurious about the subject.
Literary nonsense, as recognized since the nineteenth century, comes from a combination of two broad artistic sources. The first and older source is the oral folk tradition, including games, songs, dramas, and rhymes, such as the nursery rhyme "Hey Diddle Diddle". [3]
"The School Boy" is a 1789 poem by William Blake and published as a part of his poetry collection entitled Songs of Experience. These poems were later added with Blake's Songs of Innocence to create the entire collection entitled "Songs of Innocence and of Experience Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul".