Brian Kenny

Less is more. During the past semester's haiku roundtable, this lesson has perhaps been the hardest to learn. My poetic background had previously been in free verse or more "traditional" forms of writing poetry. Writing haiku forced me to alter the style I was accustomed to using. The following haiku are the product of that experiment in changing styles. My haiku have a tendency to want to tell a story, minus the role of the narrator. They can almost be described as walking onto a theatre stage covered in props and settings with the actors or the plot, leaving the viewer to co-create the remnants of the play. At best these haiku have enabled myself as a writer to be able to let go of some of the creative reigns and let the reader create the story along with me. —Brian Patrick Kenny