2025 Songs To Light a Winter’s Night
Hello from the conclusion of a wonderful tour that embodied the joy of the season, from the audience to the songs to the proprietors and back around again and again in a golden circle twice as powerful as the weather…
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Oh, my heart!
oh my heart, listen
the stories you tell yourself
are not who you are
stories are like ghosts
the only way they have life
is if you let them
they will block the sun
make you think they define you
…
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IT’S HERE: “The Come Back!”
It's been five years since the first tiny Haiku Milieu book, "Reckoning."
This is the book my readers tell me they carry with them everywhere they go.
Differently from the haiku in the coffee-table style Haiku Milieu books,…
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What's In Your Treasure Chest?
It's almost Halloween.
When it comes to Halloween, we Chicagoans know that you just never know:
Will you be walking in a wonderland of golden falling leaves?
Will the rain be coming in sideways?
Or will you be shoveling the…
HAIKU POEM: Warm, Baked Oatmeal
WARM BAKED OATMEAL
Jenny Bienemann
Your warm baked oatmeal
the kind you like best with the
non-milk milk in it
an impulse purchase
I wasn’t even hungry
at least, not for food
with the first spoonful
I think how you’d…
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WINNER: Poetry Category, International Book Awards: "Sundays with Jenny"
WHOA!! “Sundays with Jenny” just WON the Poetry Category of the International Book Awards!!
I would love to be able to tell you what this means to me…but I'm at a loss for words!
Kudos to Jill Arena, who…
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WINNER: New York Book Fest, "Sundays with Jenny"
"Sundays with Jenny" won the Poetry Category in
The New York Book Festival!
I am floored. Still blinking to be sure it's real.
And HONORED!
I certainly would not be here without you, my Sunday readers. …Read more
2025 Haiku Milieu After Dark and David Sameshima: Photographer Extraordinare!
Beloved friend and fan of Chicago musicians, David has singlehandedly ensured that there is photographic and videographic evidence of the concerts of too many Haiku Milieu artists to count!
He sees deeply, understands the nature of the assignment, …Read more
Haiku Milieu on Folkstage, September 2025
It's been one week since the live, on-air Haiku Milieu Concert Folkstage with Naomi Ashley, Robin Bienemann, Anne Heaton, Emily Hurd, Aaron Kelly, Andrew Sa, and yours truly, …Read more