limerick
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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
For today’s homework, try to mix and match a format, a style and a topic — like, “Write a limerick in the style of Snoop Dogg about global warming.”
From New York Times • Mar. 28, 2023
Week 1502 was our annual Limerixicon, a salute to the never-ending limerick dictionary project at OEDILF.com.
From Washington Post • Sep. 15, 2022
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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