Acrostic? What kind of stick is that? Actually, it's a poem! Award-winning author Brian P. Cleary explains how acrostics are created―and shows how even the wackiest words be turned into a poem.
What do you get when you combine a poem and a joke? A limerick! These five-line rhyming poems are funny, silly, and sly. Award-winning author Brian P. Cleary explains how limericks work-and shows you how to write your own limericks!
Quatrain? What kind of train is that? Actually, it's a poem! Quatrains are poems with patterns of rhyming words. Award-winning author Brian P. Cleary explains how quatrains work-and shows some of the many ways they can be written.
When is a list also a poem? When it's a list poem! List poems can be funny or serious, rhymed or unrhymed. Award-winning author Brian P. Cleary explains how these types of poems work.