GARDEN HAIKU: Raising Your Child with Ancient Wisdom
Lily Wang, the Garden Haiku Poet
Lily Wang is a Chinese-American poet, author of GARDEN HAIKU and BABY HAIKU which are widely loved by parents, educators and children for their 3-line haiku lessons on compassion, simplicity and patience. Lily Wang was born in 1972 in Taipei, Taiwan. She received her BA in English from Soochow University in Taipei,and earned her MA in English from California State University, Fresno. She got married in 2000 and her wedding pcitures as shown here were done in our studio. In 2006, she published...

National 10-Haiku-Per-Day Month
Your March Poetry Challenge
I am dubbing March as "National 10-Haiku-Per-Day Month". This means everyone who participates in this experiment will write ten original haiku everyday for the entire month of March. 10 haiku x 31 days = 310 haiku that you will write. The reason I want you to write so many is because out of those 310 haiku, there should be a handful of really good poems, ones that you are really proud of. I want you to submit them on The Google Docs Page for the "Second Annual Haiku Anthology".

Heckava Haiku
I Self Published Heckava Haiku
In 2009 I rediscovered Haiku. By the end of the year I had written 366 haiku and decided it would be fantastic to publish it into a paperback book. That book is called Heckava Haiku. You can find it later in this lens. In 2010 I learned about a Poet Called Masaoka Shiki. He died at a very young age, but was able to write 25,000 haiku in that short life. I made a goal to write at least 25,000 haiku. By the end of 2010 I had written about 800. I have a long way to go. 2011 I decided to post o...

How to Write Haiku
Quick Rules on Haiku
1. Haiku are 3 lines long ~~ Line one is 5 syllables ~~ Line two is 7 syllables ~~ Line three is 5 syllables 2. Does not have to rhyme 3. Can be about anything 4. All you need is paper, a pen and your fingers to count on.