How to Write an Amazing Poem

a guide to what makes a poem tick

Would you like to learn more about how to write poetry? Would you like to learn how to talk about poetry better? This site is for you.

Each section talks about a different part of a poem. You can browse the topics and write poems at your own pace.

Don’t worry about putting it all together at once! Take what you want and leave the rest.

It is difficult
to get the news from poems
     yet men die miserably every day
            for lack
of what is found there.

—-From “Asphodel, That Greeny Flower,” by William Carlos Williams

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