Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write a valentine poem.

with poems that need no explanation — and then if you look more deeply into them you might find some surprises and marvels as writing an “easy” poem usually is far from easy. Robert Frost ...

Ranking Shakespeare’s poems is not easy, and scholars and readers often ... If there was anything Shakespeare could do well, it was to write immortal literature, and this lesser-known poem ...

Kids haven't experienced true holiday magic until the first time they hear A Visit from St. Nicholas. That long-form poem ...

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 — ...

When you are writing anything (for example, a story or a poem) you need to group your words together into sentences. There are a few simple rules you need to follow to make sure your sentences are ...

When you are writing anything (for example, a story or a poem) you need to group your words together into sentences. There are a few simple rules you need to follow to make sure your sentences are ...

Then I turn to the poem on the next page and the story disappears. So, as we write poems, it’s important to remember that we’re really telling these stories of a moment. The question we should ...