How to Write a Poem

In this companion to the picture book How to Read a Book Kwame Alexander teams up with poet Deanna Nikaido and Caldecott Honoree Melissa Sweet to celebrate the magic of discovering your very own poetry in the world around you.

Begin with a question like an acorn waiting for spring. From this first stanza, readers are invited to pay attention—and to see that paying attention itself is poetry. The book encourages readers to listen, feel, and discover the words that dance in the world around them—poems just waiting to be written down.