“Our mission is to write haiku for everyone on the whole entire planet,” says Lisa Markuson, the one woman in the poetry-writing trio The Haiku Guys. This might seem a bit ambitious, but given how ...

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 ...

Learn how to capture the delicate balance between human-built cities and the natural world. How do cities impact nature? In this video, Jeff Kass introduces the concept of urban sprawl and teaches us ...

Poetry is one of the most powerful art forms we have. Since ancient times, poems — from haikus to sonnets to limericks — have succinctly and beautifully translated the joys and sorrows of the world ...

* 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 ...

3. Students apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and appreciate texts. They draw on their prior experience, their interactions with other readers and writers, their ...