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 ...

* 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 ...

“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 ...

One of art’s unique features is the power to heighten our awareness, to bring us into direct contact with our senses, to activate our minds into a dynamic state which we may carry with us down the ...

If the Mojave Desert landscape moves you, think about expressing those feelings in words. A field class next weekend in Joshua Tree National Park offers lessons in how to write haiku and other forms ...

Poetry was one of the first art forms I encountered in life, thanks to the birthday poems my grandfather used to write for each of his 17 living grandchildren. One of the many small losses of ...

Each installment of The Friendship Files features a conversation between The Atlantic’s Julie Beck and two or more friends, exploring the history and significance of their relationship. This week she ...