It also is an acrostic poem, Mitchell said, with the first letter of each line, when read vertically, collectively spelling a word or words relevant to the poem. May 31, 2025.

Get those creative juices flowing because to finish off your entry, you'll need to write an acrostic poem using that day’s code word. Yep, the ol’ school poetry trick where each letter kicks ...

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" ...

Ben Bernthal’s set-up for street poetry, featuring his typewriter, an ironing board displaying mystery poems, and a flag with the word “poems” sewn onto it. Photo by Io Yeh Gilman. As they talk before ...

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.

There are no rules to this game, which I call Word of the Month Poetry Challenge. The idea is to examine the word of the month, probe for its secrets, its stories, choose one, and write about it.

Compose an Acrostic: ... Summary Poem: Ask students to list 10 useful vocabulary words from an assigned text, then write a free-verse poem using those words, says Finley. Or have them write a quick ...

ACROSTIC — Well, well, well. It’s another all-around tricky puzzle from David Balton and Jane Stewart. Every step I took seemed to put me in deeper trouble: I made some bad guesses on words in ...