The Empress was besought recently to give another go to a contest we last did 12 years ago: It's for mini-poems written in the style of the old Burma-Shave ads, which used to appear on pre ...

Inspired by the old ad campaign for Burma Shave, where jingles were posted on the sides of roads, and by Orlando having posted poems in trees declaring his love for Rosalind in Shakespeare’s As ...

The poem is a nod to the Burma-Shave ads that were put up all over U.S. roadsides in the 1920s. They were taken down in the '50s, but some recreations still exist—most notably along Route 66.

Burma-Shave's rhyming ads turned highway billboards into poetry, and changed advertising -- and America By J.J. Sedelmaier Published May 15, 2012 12:00AM (EDT) ...

Prompted perhaps by the news last week of Lakewood Township's crackdown on roadside signs, Gilbert's Joseph Legueri got to reminiscing about Burma-Shave, the brushless shaving cream introduced in ...

SOUTH COAST — Live Culture Coast invites Oregon’s writers, poets, and creatives to submit short poems for the first-ever Live Culture Coast, a sensory celebration of fermentation, creativity ...

The idea for the poem was based on the Burma-Shave roadside ad campaigns plastered across the country for some 40 years. Starting in the 1920s, the brushless shaving cream brand started ...

A Virginia man has gone far beyond the Burma Shave billboards, traveling to barbershops around the country to deliver his poetry. This story originally aired on WRAL-TV on April 15, 2008.

Quote of the day: "The old-fashioned gal darned her husband's socks; the modern gal socks her darned husband!" Burma-Shave was an American brand of brushless shaving cream, famous for its ...

Area poets are invited to be part of the 2014 Reedsburg Fermentation Fest Oct. 4-13. The Farm/Art DTour, a featured event of the festival, is a 50-mile self-guided drive through ...

Area poets are invited to be part of the 2015 the Farm/Art DTour in Sauk County, a featured event of the Reedsburg Fermentation Fest, a 50-mile self-guided drive through the ...