poetics

Provides poetry-writing exercises that address a broad range of topics.

Explains to kids how to write poems about everyday subjects from their lives, such as experiences with their family, friends, and pets, providing tips, example poems, and exercises.

A collection of poems about the experiences of young people and a section with information about how each poem was written to enable readers to create their own original poems.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide prose descriptions of over three hundred verse forms, with schematic diagrams, examples, and cross-references; and includes discussions of prose and verse writing, as well as various prosodic and metrical systems.

Using a selection of seven sport poems, discusses how to understand the meaning of poems and the writing techniques use by poets.

Contains biographical profiles of twelve American poets of the modern era, including Robert Frost, Marianne Moore, and Langston Hughes, and includes examples and analyses of their writing.

A guide to writing and understanding poetry, identifying fourteen poetic elements, each with a definition and examples, and including worksheets, exercises, and writing ideas.

An anthology of seventy poems covering subjects from autumn to zebras. Includes poetry-writing exercises to help the reader get started, and shows how to compose acrostics, clerihews, haikus, and much more.

"This book invites the reader to jump into a selection of poems about emotions written by people from different places and times. It gives the reader the keys needed to unlock poetry. It equips the reader to explore the meanings that a poem has, and it explains the techniques poets use to create an effect."--Back cover.

Using seven poems about choices, discusses how to understand poetry, its meanings, and the techniques that poets use to write them.