Writer and director Becca Roth drew attention to the issue in an X thread on Monday. The TikTok video from a young user ...

I fully agree. I write poetry to capture moments, hold on to memories and process my emotions. One of my notebooks still holds poems I wrote when I was in elementary school. I’m not about to submit ...

An acrostic poem in which the initial letters spell out the alphabet is called an " abecedarius." Interestingly, there are several abecedarian poems in the Bible (based on the Hebrew alphabet).

National Poetry Day 2024 is celebrated on Thursday 3 October and is a day to highlight the impact poetry has on people's lives. Each year has a different theme, and this year's theme is 'counting'.

This episode is the poem’s most striking, both because it relates a highly significant story and because it contains an indisputably intentional acrostic of the poet’s own name. He begins by ...

His folly—pride—and passion—for he died. 2. Concrete poetry Concrete poetry has the potential to get really weird, in a good way. With this poetry type, the form of the text takes on a shape relevant ...

ACROSTIC — Once in a while I encounter a design that works so well on a printed page that I think to myself, “What a shame, this whole internet era!” This is one of those cases.

A common poetry form rolled out when a school requests a focus on values is the acrostic poem. This is where you write the word down the left-hand side of the page and then start each line using a ...

Those idioms might also get an acrostic aficionado’s spidey senses tingling; I wish I could say that I knew to look for a flowery passage early on, but as usual, I made the connection late ...

White hairs multiplying On temples, and even on top of my head. What should I do about them? Again, just taking a look in the mirror— Gee, that’s more than last time. Excuse me, I’m only ...