A debate over using artificial turf forced a Minneapolis high school to pivot. Now it's one of the first users of a special hybrid grass.

Two weeks ago I announced a contest for the best new original limerick on language. Easy to ask, hard to do. A limerick is one of the most demanding of verse forms. It gallops along in a tight circle, ...

The following is the guide we publish in conjunction with our limerick contests; it’s several years old, with slightt tailoring for Week 1332. The Style Invitational is renowned for all sorts of ...

The following is the guide we publish in conjunction with our limerick contests; it’s several years old, with updates for this week’s contest for limericks that prominently feature a word or name ...

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THE limerick’s is indeed a happy fate — or at least it has been so up to the present. Serious-minded critics have been so afraid of lowering their dignity that they have never thoroughly discussed it.

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