An acrostic poem takes a word, sentence, or phrase and makes the first letter of each the first line of a poem.   

Tonya Strickland, an English professor, modeled the definition of an acrostic poem with this poem:

You could make an acrostic poem from the word "Night":   The first line of the poem would start with "N," the second line would start with "I," the third line would start with "G," and so on.

Remember:  Your rubric for your poem stresses your incorporation of imagery and the poem's communication of why the book Night has its title.

Now you've got to go back and write a poem!