Others, like today’s Poem of the Day, were simply bitter. “Wedlock: A Satire” is a comic poem, with its hyperbolic rants against the tyranny of marriage and its gratuitous swipes at the Jesuits. In ...

The actor John Lithgow’s new book, “Dumpty: The Age of Trump in Verse,” is a book of satirical poetry. On this week’s podcast, Lithgow says that he wasn’t the likeliest person to write a ...

When I read Trillin's poem, I mentally lumped it into the category of doggerel, which he has been writing for years for the Nation.He has even published a volume or two dedicated to the stuff. It ...

Marvell’s own satirical poems, meanwhile, criticizing the corruption of the court of Charles II, were published anonymously during his lifetime. Following a turn in Parliament, during which he wrote ...

Renowned poet and Padma Shri awardee Dr. Surendra Dubey passed away at 72 due to cardiac arrest in Chhattisgarh. Known for his humor and satire, he had undergone successful angioplasty before his ...