You rarely get the praise you deserve for all of these things. But this Mother's Day, a group of children say thank you to their mums for all that they do for them. You are the codebreaker.

A great poem ... to say. Don't do it, says Harryette Mullen, a poet and professor of English at University of California, Los Angeles. Instead, ask yourself some questions to get at what you ...

Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. Ever heard the saying “the best writers are readers”? The first step to writing a poem is figuring out what you ...

Keep doing this until you can say all of the lines in the first part of the poem without needing to check. There are things you can do to make this easier: Think about the story the poem is telling.