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 ...

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 ...

By Caitlin Lovinger ACROSTIC — Today’s passage ... but only because I thought of another poem, by Alfred Lord Tennyson before the mythological context of Homer’s Odyssey.

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.