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limerick

[lim-er-ik] / ˈlɪm ər ɪk /






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Email your limerick and name to [email protected] by noon Monday, and if we get enough fun ones, we’ll publish a selection to carry us into spring.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 15, 2024

Entrants would write the final line of a limerick to enter into the draw to win a brand new car.

From Salon • Jul. 10, 2023

If you’re bored of reading this newsletter, you could ask ChatGPT or Bing to summarize the rest of it for you, or to rewrite it as a jaunty limerick.

From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2023

By “significantly,” we mean that a “he” or “her” won’t qualify your limerick unless it were really focused on that word.

From Washington Post • Aug. 5, 2021

Maybe she will try writing again, nothing too ambitious, a fun poem in the limerick mode.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez




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