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 ...

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 ...

* 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 ...

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 ...

WESTFIELD — Everett Decker can be a man of few words, but he is a man of many poems. A proficient writer of haiku, a Japanese brief form of poetry, he created 1,789 haiku-influenced poems based on ...