You know the saying "kids say the darnedest things?" As author Matt Forrest Esenwine explains, they write some pretty wild ...

Mary Margaret Hughes, who got her start in classrooms and on stages in Springfield, writes about how creativity and ...

“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 say? Finally ...

You will always gain something from them to enrich your writing. Something vital to note is that a poem that will delight a child, whether funny, serious, happy, sad or angry needs to be for a ...

You might wonder where poems come from. I’d like to write a poem, you think. But what should I write about? From poet Sharon Olds: “What you know that I don’t know is what you can tell me in ...

Inspired by a past relationship, Arenas explored the personal burden of loving someone who refuses to open up. The poem captures the silent heartbreak with unmatched energy and the difficult yet ...

ALEXANDER: Yes. We are going to do an epistolary poem, from the Latin epistola, for letter. So we are quite literally going to write poems that read as letters. They can tell a story. They can ask ...

writing a monthly column that uses the Times’ interactive technology to analyze a single poem at a time. Scott isn’t coming to poetry as a true outsider. He finished all the coursework and ...

“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 ...

Ever heard the saying “the best writers are readers”? The first step to writing a poem is figuring out what you like about poetry. Check out: USA TODAY's weekly Best-selling Booklist Is it ...