poetics

A collection of readings, writings, and poetry associated with food that explains how a poet uses words to help the reader understand the poem's meaning.

A collection of A to Z rhyming poems that illustrate poetic tools, terms, and techniques including the ballad, doublets, free verse, haiku, limerick, and metaphors.

In this novel told through poems, nine-year-old Sam loves fishing with his dad, so when his pesky little sister horns in on their fishing trip, he is none too pleased. Includes primer on rhyme, poetry techniques, rhythm, stanzas, and poetic forms.

Contains a guide to writing poetry, providing advice, ideas, writing activities, and encouragement from a working poet, presenting poems by a variety of poets from the unknown to the famous, including Langston Hughes, e.e. cummings, Eve Merriam, and more.

Guidance and many examples provide help and ideas for writing poetry, covering such aspects as poetic forms, meter, imagery, and language.

Collection of poems about writing poetry, the frustration of writing, and other subjects.

Provides practical advice with checklists on the art of writing poetry.

An introduction to poetry that describes how poems are different from other kinds of writing; discusses rhythm, rhyme, alliteration, similes, onomatopoeia, acrostics, cinquains, concrete poems, free verse, haikus, and limericks; and includes examples.

A collection of verse that provides examples of poetic forms.