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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We are full of our life experiences, the wonderful and the difficult, full of the history of the decades we’ve lived as well.

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 ...

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.

Haiku is a centuries old Japanese poetry format composed of 17 syllables in three unrhymed lines with the first line of five syllables, seven in the second, and five in the third. The subject is often ...

While Japanese haiku is generally about nature, Indian haikuists are exploring themes of war, refugees and human suffering ...