Short and often focused on nature, haiku are an obvious source of poetry from daily life, former Missouri Poet Laureate Mayfrances Wagner writes.

My guest this week on "Poetry from Daily Life" is Amos Bridges, who lives in Springfield, Missouri. I’m especially happy to hear from Amos because he’s the editor-in-chief for the Springfield ...

KidsPost Haiku explored the highs and lows of life as a squirrel More than 400 readers entered KidsPost’s first themed poetry contest.

Katya Sabaroff Taylor, author of "My Haiku Life" and "Prison Wisdom," believes we all have stories and poems inside of us waiting for expression. Email her at [email protected]. I want to tell ...

My guest this week on "Poetry from Daily Life" is Mary Margaret Hughes, who lives in Nashville, Tennessee. Her introduction to poetry came early when her mother read Shel Silverstein books to her. She ...

Here's how to help the poemless: go to the poetry shelves in the children’s section of your local library. Grab a book by David Harrison, or Marilyn Singer, or Charles Waters, or Eric Ode, or one of ...

The haiku, like Hall’s life, has a turning point. His series of not-quite-haikus (“distressed” in both subject matter and form) takes bits of his grief and explores its contradictions.

What does a conversation between the Skamander poets and the avant-garde look like? What does a frog do in Białoszewski’s ...

"A Life and a Death in Haiku," by J. Russell Hoverman: a brother shares haikus and photos dear to his family around his brother's end-of-life care. My brother, Jim, was diagnosed at age 73 years with ...

New year, more poetry: Tess Taylor ended 2022 by sharing how writing a daily haiku changed her life. Now she’s ending 2023 and greeting a new year by inviting CNN Opinion readers to share how ...