Maybe we shouldn't have been surprised by the overwhelming response to the Star Tribune's limerick contest, held in celebration of National Poetry Month in April. After all, during a limerick craze in ...

Bill reads three news-related limericks: Orange Blush, Crack a Smile and The Best Limerick Ever Made. Coming up it's Lighting Fill In The Blank. But first, it's the game where you have to listen for ...

THE COMPLETE LIMERICK BOOK— Langford Reed—Putnam ($2.50). In a spirit of scholarly dignity appropriate to so solemn an undertaking, Mr. Reed, himself no idle Limericist, has prepared the compendium ...

Aquintessentially English literary device, the humble limerick falls somewhere between a bumper sticker and a sonnet. Best read aloud, the primary purpose of this five-line verse is to elicit ...