Five Thousand Syllables: 150 Days of Haiku

On March 13, 2020, S. Anne Kelln was sent home from her teaching job after schools closed to quarantine from Covid-19. Thrust into an uncertain life at home with her two young children, Anne turned to poetry for comfort. She joined a poetry challenge to write one haiku a day. She turned all the big events, every day simplicities, emotions, and experiences into seventeen syllable statements. Days, weeks, and months went by. This collection of haiku is the result of the five months spent at h...