This week’s guest on “Poetry from Daily Life” is Maryfrances Wagner, who lives in the Greater Kansas City Area. Maryfrances began writing poems as an eighth grader and today writes mainly poetry and ...

It is a poem, written by Jenny Bienemann. It is a haiku, an ancient form of Japanese poetry usually written in 17 syllables over three lines, often the first with five syllables, then seven and then ...

HAMDEN-- Its structure is succinct and to the point. It normally speaks to things of beauty: nature, love, spirituality. Oddly enough, though it's a form of poetry that's been around for thousands of ...

Today is National Haiku Poetry Day. You do have your decorations out, right? Observed annually on April 17, this special day is meant to encourage everyone to try to write this Japanese form of poetry ...

The writer of a book of haiku says she never thought of herself as a poet, but she is coming to Livingston to promote her ...

* What can we learn about reading and writing haiku, in particular traditional Japanese haiku? * What can we learn about reading literature closely, by focusing on words and images in order to explore ...