Each year as part of NCW, ACS sponsors an illustrated poem contest for K-12 students in the US. Please read below for the rules, deadlines, and submission information, and check out the winning poems ...

The form of a poem is how we describe the overarching structure or pattern of the poem. Some forms of poetry must stick to very specific rules about length, rhythm and rhyme. Poets enjoy playing ...

In closed form poetry, the poet follows a set pattern; and in open form poetry, the poet doesn’t follow any rules but their own. The form, the physical structure of a poem, refers collectively ...