When the former national poet of Wales Gwyneth Lewis wrote How to Knit a Poem, she probably wasn't expecting that two years later, knitters around the world would be taking her at her word. But more ...

Poetry in Motion A pair of picture books pays rhyming tribute to shapes and patriotism. Readers can enjoy concrete poems organized by season in Come to My Party: And Other Shape Poems by Heidi Roemer, ...

They are written to a precise syllabic count. It begins with a line of nine syllables and then moves progressively down to the middle line of one syllable and then moves back to nine, structurally the ...

Today Múinteoir Clíona told us all about calligrams, also known as "shape poems". A calligram is a poem in which the formation of the letters or the font selected, represents an aspect of the poem's ...