Your book of poems

Create a book of your own poetry, consisting of at least ten poems Include the following:

1. A title page, decorated.

2. An invitation poem

2. At least 8 different kinds of poems that you have revised to awesome quality: e.g. Acrostic, haiku, two word, circle, change, transformation, animal, apology, synaesthesia, limerick, imagery, Shakespeare, device, pantoum, Billy Collins, etc.

3. Your self-portrait (9-11 free verse stanzas based on Blackbird)

5. A response page.

Here's some great poetry to listen to, read to you by our poet laureate, Tracy K. Smith.