You can make a novel out of just about anything these days: recipes, PowerPoint slides, e-mails, text messages. Still, not many novelists have turned to rhyming couplets. The novel is an expansive, ...

I hope you are enjoying our Sunday column, “Poetry from Daily Life,” which provides each week the wit, wisdom, and experiences of poets and authorities on poetry. By offering such a rich mix of voices ...

David Rakoff's new book comes out this week. It's a novel written in rhyming couplets. In the book, the main character is dying of AIDS. Rakoff wrote it as he himself was dying of cancer. This ...

It's poetry — rhyming couplets written in perfect iambic pentameter, those ten-syllable lines of alternating emphasis made famous by authors of sonnets and blank verse. But unlike your average metered ...

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Talk to people about a play in rhymed couplets, and their eyes glaze over. Seventeenth century, they think. Men in ruffles. Powdered wigs. Yet there’s not a speck of dust on David Hirson’s La Bete, a ...

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Just in time for Valentine’s Day, the latest Villanova Theatre production aims to tell a farcical love story … in rhyming couplets. “The School for Lies” is David Ives’ off-color tribute to Moliere’s ...

After his 2022 essay collection On Browsing, a melancholy homage to material media (CDs, LPs, DVDs and print), Jason Guriel has returned to verse. The Full-Moon Whaling Chronicles, his second novel in ...