Estimated Time: 20-25 minutes

You will be reading Poetry Matters by Ralph Fletcher as you work through this course. This book is designed to help guide you step-by-step in creating poetry of your own. It is full of helpful tips and inspirational ideas.

Read:

• Poetry Matters, "The Power of Poetry," page 3
• Jot down any tips and quotes that you like best from the book.

This study is all about poets and their poems. We will try to understand more about why poets wrote their poems, what their poems mean, and why they are important to us today.

We will explore how and why poetry has been used in our modern culture, such as in advertising and movies.

But, what exactly is poetry?

Here is one idea:

And what makes a poem a poem?