Read aloud picture books and look for simile examples and metaphor examples to learn how writers use figurative language to ...

Learn how to get your ideas from your head and into your poem. Anyone can write poetry. You can write poetry about whatever you feel like, in whatever way you want, for whatever reason you choose.

A simile describes something by comparing it to something else, using like or as. A simile is a useful way to describe something without using a long list of adjectives. It can create a vivid image in ...

to the outer reaches, fled and ever-fixed, adrift with our space-faring dead. Mark Granier’s poems have appeared in the New Statesman, Poetry Review and Carol Ann Duffy’s online pandemic ...

There are those who regard the availability of metaphor as a blessing, an enhancement of the ranges of life. In one of the epigraphs to Denis Donoghue’s subtle and engrossing new book, the poet John ...