The following poem was published on February 2, 1833, in the Baltimore Saturday Visiter. It contains descriptions and clues of 11 famous literary figures. The poem was only attributed to "P." ...

Her diary has been lost, which deprives us of some of what may have been the sharpest comments on her era, but her letters and a handful of poems survive. Her “Fragment in Imitation of Wordsworth,” ...

The Big Golden Book of Laughs: A Treasury of Poems, Jokes, Riddles, and Rhymes. Golden Books, $12.99 (72pp) ISBN 978-0-307-14902-2 ...

Students can brainstorm a selection of Scottish words on the board and divide them into nouns, adjectives and verbs. Ask students to write their own ‘Whit am I?’ riddle poems, using these words.

Students could also study some of Liz Niven’s poems, or other modern poems in Scots, to find words they can use in their own poems. Creative writing Now playing video 8 of 12 ...