Have you ever tried to write a poem about a pizza? How about a pig? How about a pigeon, penguin, potato, Ping-Pong, parrot, puppy, pelican, porcupine, pie, pachyderm, or your parents?

Jack Prelutsky has written more than one thousand poems about all of these things—and many others. In this book he gives you the inside scoop on writing poetry and shows you how you can turn your own experiences and stories about your

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A former United States Poet Laureate shares secrets about viewing the world from a poet's perspective, explaining how "jabberwalking" poets draw inspiration from everything they experience to express themselves in creative ways.

Line poetry includes a number of forms that rely on parallel structure, repetition, and line breaks. This book gives readers useful instructions for writing a variety of list poems, including acrostics, bio poems, and riddle poems.

"Everybody has a poem inside them! Writing one is not as hard as you think, you just need to know how to get started. Discover all sorts of ways to write and perform your very own poems, from found poems, to haikus, to tanka poems, to tongue-twisters!" --