Mary Margaret Hughes, who got her start in classrooms and on stages in Springfield, writes about how creativity and ...

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 ...

She was famous for writing and collecting haiku poems that captured life in Japanese internment camps during World War II. Her groundbreaking anthology of internment camp poets, May Sky , was ...

Discover the soul-stirring world of haiku poetry with 9 heartfelt poems that capture the essence of mindfulness. Explore 9 beautiful haiku poems offering gentle reminders of balance and serenity.

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

The submission themes: belonging, serenity, metamorphosis and even life in the city are all uniquely human experiences.

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 ...

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.

Turns out haiku doesn’t need to have three lines—and other things you might learn on a tour of Japan’s historic poetry sites. A 17th-century feudal castle overlooks Matsuyama, Japan, the ...