A federal appeals court reviewing evidence at Guantanamo Bay compared a Bush administration legal argument to one made by a hapless, dimwitted character in a 19th century nonsense poem by Lewis ...

Today’s Poem of the Day provides an odd closure to a well-known but strange novel, the 1871 “Through the Looking Glass,” by Lewis Carroll (1832–1898). We’re accustomed to Carroll (whose real identity ...

Previously released titles are brought to new life. Mary Middling and Other Silly Folk: Nursery Rhymes and Nonsense Poems takes poems first published in the U.S. in 1932 as Fifty-One New Nursery ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The largest private collection of nonsense poems, doodles and comic drawings by the Beatles singer John Lennon will be sold in New York in June, auctioneer Sotheby's said on Friday.

Scott Simon speaks with Weekend Edition's ambassador to the world of kiddie literature, Daniel Pinkwater. They talk about a new book of nonsense poems by Jack Prelutsky called, The Frog Wore Red ...

WASHINGTON -- A federal appeals court reviewing evidence at Guantanamo Bay compared a Bush administration legal argument to one made by a hapless, dimwitted character in a 19th century nonsense poem ...

WASHINGTON The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit cited the 1876 poem, "The Hunting of the Snark," in ruling that the military improperly labeled a Chinese Muslim as an enemy ...