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A poet in a blue jacket stepped onto the pitch-black stage. The spotlight illuminated poet Kim Hye-soon, 70 years old. She sat at the far end of six chairs arranged side by side on the stage and began ...

Do you have that one friend who says the most absurd dark joke at the dinner table and leaves everyone stunned? If not, sorry to break it to you, but you might be that person. Some people just love ...

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Deadpan is not so much a type of joke as a mode of delivery, a manner of address to an audience that often provokes nervous laughter. One reason is that performers – particularly comedians – are ...

That ain’t been there before. Of course, poetry doesn’t have to be juvenile to be funny. Nor must it be raunchy, although a limerick might rely on bawdiness. A poem needn’t even make the reader guffaw ...

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