It can be a haiku, free verse or a rhyming poem, it doesn't matter – but please cap your poems at 10 lines. (Click here to read examples of ekphrastic poems – and see the paintings that ...

Discover Why ‘The Raven,’ Edgar Allan Poe’s Narrative Poem About a Distraught Lover and a Talking Bird, Remains an American Classic Published on this day in 1845, the work used alliteration ...

Poet Ellen Hopkins, who lives in Cape Girardeau, shares some advice — and several poems as examples — of how to incorporate humor into verse.

A love poem, for example, might try to sound sensual, positive and harmonious; a poem about injustice might use a lot of vivid emotive language to plead with the reader to sympathise.

Find out about how to respond to poetry with this guide for KS3 English students aged 11-14 from BBC Bitesize.

Poetry therapy reminds us that when trauma and grief steal our words, verse can gently lead us back home.