Short and often focused on nature, haiku are an obvious source of poetry from daily life, former Missouri Poet Laureate Mayfrances Wagner writes. Watch Party Newsletter What to watch Win $100 💵 ...

Poet Yolanda Wisher worked with elementary students, who wrote the haiku that are featured in the Rain Poetry project. (Emma Lee/WHYY) In keeping with the Rain Poetry’s theme of rain, the poets were ...

Haiku is a Japanese form of poetry that uses a few words to create a feeling or capture a moment in time. In English, haiku is a poem written in three lines.

Earlier haiku described their powerful cry “lengthen[ing] the hill[s]”; a poem written in 2022 found them “calling across wintry mudflats, haunting the wind”.