Metrical Clerihew Poetry Challenge
. The clerihew is a relatively new poetry form introduced by Edmund Clerihew Bentley in 1905. It is usually a...
Clerihew
‘Maria Montessori’ and Other Clerihews by Peter Hartley
. Maria Montessori Seldom felt hunky-dory. Her vision for education Fell short of inspiring a nation. . King George the...
Review: ‘Light In the Darkness—The Poetry of Peter Hartley’
Reviewed Book: Light In the Darkness—The Poetry of Peter Hartley, Dunecrest Press, 2021. by James A. Tweedie Peter Hartley writes...
Humorous Poetry for the CCP Virus (COVID-19) Quarantine
Note: The Society of Classical Poets refers to the COVID-19 coronavirus as the CCP virus because the Chinese Communist Party’s...
Five Clerihews for the Iliad, by Raymond C. Roy
A Clerihew is a four-line comic poem with a rigid rhyming scheme, aabb, but no metric requirements. It stands in...
Six Clerihews by Peter Hartley
The clerihew is a kind of epigrammatic verse (normally) consisting of a pair of rhyming couplets. The first line will...
This reminds me of "8 Mile Road." Love for the mother comes through in spite of her cringe-inducing choices. Perhaps…
Reading this was a harrowing experience, and it felt great when we finally came up for air. I've been in…
This is a wonderful, sensitive poem with dramatic impact and a plethora of images constructed in the mind while attempting…
Good thing that you began to write, Katie, because you do it very well. I think your father would be…
My apologies for your loss, Jason. This seems a fitting tribute and stirs up many emotions when read. Grief can…
