Poetry and translation are both about picking the just-right word. But reading multiple translations makes an implicit case ...

Mitchell's latest poem leans on what he refers to as his "suspect memory," which recalls a corner grocery store named Bates. Whether Bates was, indeed, the grocery store's name, the poem "is an ode to ...

At the most extreme, some forms of constrained writing are even more self-limiting and end up being very, very constrained indeed.

Once you’ve got it, text in to 0439 757 555 with your full name and the code word. Get those creative juices flowing because to finish off your entry, you'll need to write an acrostic poem using ...

It’s National Poetry Month, and I am excited. I love wordplay and turns of phrase, so I’m happy that this is the 29th year to celebrate wordsmithing of the poetic variety — the Academy of American ...

An "acrostic poem" is a poem in which the first letter of each line — read vertically — spells out a word or a message. The word “acrostic" comes from the Greek words “akros" (outermost) and “stichos" ...

Once, when Ben Bernthal was selling street poetry — he takes three words from a stranger, and turns them into a poem on the spot — a man came up and told him to write a poem about “why it matters.” ...

Jaiveer, also aged 11, said he loves acrostic poems, where the first letter in each line spells a word or phrase. "I can write an acrostic poem using any random word. Sometimes it doesn't rhyme ...