Poet Ellen Hopkins, who lives in Cape Girardeau, shares some advice — and several poems as examples — of how to incorporate humor into verse.

Since antiquity, medical personnel have dismissed highly emotional women as "hysterical." In Medical Muses, Asti Hustvedt travels back to a 19th-century Parisian hospital in an attempt to ...

In her debut poetry collection, GREAT EXODUS, GREAT WALL, GREAT PARTY (American Poetry Review, 86 pp., paper, $15), Chessy Normile is often funny — “All the books on time / are pretty good ...

Writer Alan Katz didn't think poetry was for him. Then he wrote a book or two and learned that poetry is for everyone.

The Bibliotecaphilia exhibition opening at Mass MoCA next week features filmmaker Clayton Cubitt’s provocative Hysterical Literature film series, which depicts women reading literature aloud and ...

When Amanda’s orgasm finally hits her in Session Seven of Clayton Cubitt’s “Hysterical Literature,” the outburst is as sudden as an attack of ultraviolence in the book from which she’s ...

One exploration worth exploring is Clayton Cubitt’s “Hysterical Literature” video series, available for your viewing pleasure on YouTube.

Welcome to the Poetry Room, where poetry is in the title, but funny anecdotes run a close second.