Hey Geek Dads, Here's maybe the best project of the summer. It's called "The Practical Pyromaniac Clerihew Contest." To celebrate the publication of my new book The Practical Pyromaniac, the Chicago ...

Have you ever heard of Edmund Clerihew Bentley? If I had, I have forgotten and so felt like I was learning something new while researching this week’s column. For those of you who are unfamiliar with ...

Dr. George Richard Clerihew, 95, passed away on February 21, 2025, in Denton, Texas. He was born on April 1, 1929, in Antelope, Texas (Jack County), to Arthur and Claudia Alford Clerihew. At the age ...

Suggest a contest for your fellow wordplay lovers. If we can use or adapt your idea, we'll bestow upon you any book from The Atlantic Store. Edmund Clerihew Bentley isn't around to poke fun at today's ...

Late in the 19th century, a daydreaming British preppie named Edmund Clerihew Bentley gave the world a new form of nonsense verse. Author of the story “Trent’s Last Case,” Bentley (1875-1956) is best ...

Edmund Clerihew Bentley, an English writer and poet who has been dead more than a half century, invented a short, comic rhyming form while he was alive: four lines in all—brisk, sharp, the intent of ...