WHAT: Write an acrostic poem about your hometown: the word that is spelled out should be the name of your town, and the poem’s subject should be about your town. WHEN & WHERE: Submit it to ...

Virginia Clemm Poe wrote this carefully-penned acrostic valentine for her husband ... eventually dying at 24—a year after writing this poem. While their marriage is generally regarded as ...

The work is an acrostic, a poem in which the first letters of each verse spell out a message - in this case the text of the 30 articles of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Hiding an acrostic message in an otherwise ordinary resignation letter isn’t exactly the boldest way to express a political view, yet it’s proven surprisingly effective. It’s a trick that ...

But this is no ordinary poem. This is an acrostic. So there is something special going on. You see? That's the secret of an acrostic. The first letter of each line spells out the word STAR.

By Caitlin Lovinger ACROSTIC — Well ... uses the rhythms and delivery of ordinary speech”; instead of a “talk poem” or “talk verse,” the answer is RECITATIVE. Difficult!