The first step to writing a poem is figuring out what you like about poetry. Is it imagery? Format? Rhyme? Start by sampling a few poets. Maya Angelou, William Wordsworth, Frank O’Hara ...

Reading a poem can be a little bit like that. As you read each line of the poem, you are digging deeper and deeper, finding out more about the meaning of the poem and what the poet intended.

Poets use rhyming and alliteration to catch our attention when we read or hear a poem. To dump it and hide it seems very wrong. What will they say in years from now? When they dig up this rubbish ...

A Miami poet discusses her Zip Ode poem about buying her own stolen bike, and how she views this as a quintessential Miami ...