That is a haiku, a 500-year-old Japanese poetic form whose first and last lines always have five syllables, its middle line seven. Today, grade school teachers in the U.S. are turning to it as a ...

Extend the writing to make illustrated hanging scrolls with the haiku poems. Publish the poems into a class book. Have your students teach haiku to another class. In centers, have students sort poems ...

Tim Mueller is an English teacher at AC Flora High School. He says he's written nearly 5,000 haiku poems, which he's using to inspire others.

Haiku written by local children as part of the Rain Poetry project by nonprofit PA Humanities will soon be displayed on ...

Wisher decided the best people to teach poetry to young people, are young people. She brought five former and current youth poets laureate into service to form a poetry education gang: Telicia Darius, ...

“Haiku poets are challenged to convey a vivid message in only 17 syllables,” says teacher.scholastic.com. “In Japan these poems are valued for their simplicity, openness, depth and lightness.” ...

David Lasky combines poetry and comics in his creative practice, to craft 3-panel narrative sequential art that explores his everyday observations of living here. A practitioner and teacher of ...