A villanelle is a nineteen-line poem with two repeating rhymes and two refrains. Five tercets are followed by a quatrain.  This highly structured and rigid form is only about a… Read more »

Wordsmiths, obviously, should know how to sting other writers. But some have proven especially good at it. Herewith, the ten historic barbs we think the most notable and the story… 1 / Read more »