“I promise you, there’s a poem for everyone,” she says. Next, decide what you want to write about. Simple as it sounds, this can often be the hardest step for writers. What do you want to sa ...

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A person who writes a poem is called a poet. Poets do lots of things to make their poems nice to read and hear. They find ways to make sure the poem sticks in our mind. Words that rhyme have the ...

Closely aligned to the theme of romantic love is that of desire, and across the centuries poets have written about the ...

One way to think of poems is as the stories of a moment. All art, at its root, is a way of telling stories. Even paintings — ...

Watch Michael Rosen perform his poem Chocolate Cake. He does lots of things to make sure that his performance is interesting to watch. Think about the questions below as you are watching.

It’s not flowery language or clever lines that make a poem interesting — those things can help create the magic spell that tells the story, but it’s really the story itself that matters.