In honor of the city's bicentennial, Jacksonville poet laureate Andy Mitchell is writing a series of poems centered on the community, its people, and its past, present and future. Those poems will ...

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 ...

Compose an Acrostic: Have students pick a vocabulary word or key term from the day’s lesson and write an acrostic poem—a short poem where each line begins with the next letter in the chosen ...