In honor of the city's bicentennial, Jacksonville poet laureate Andy Mitchell is writing a series of poems centered on the community, its people, and its past, present and future. Those poems will ...

Do you know what an acrostic poem is? Well, the word acrostic is formed from the Greek word acros (outermost) and stichos (line of poetry). The acrostic is a poem where the first letter of each ...

But this is no ordinary poem. This is an acrostic. So there is something special going on. You see? That's the secret of an acrostic. The first letter of each line spells out the word STAR.

By Caitlin Lovinger ACROSTIC — Well ... I made some bad guesses on words in the grid that I had to undo, and I could not make enough sense of the first letters of the entries to deduce an ...