Friday was the book release concert for my new pocket-size book of haiku, “The Come Back” at FitzGerald's Sidebar.
Obviously, it required new tights.
In an out-of-the-blue switcheroo, the weather necessitated a rapid change in artistic personnel, as the…
This week has held a great deal of pain for our country, and for many of us personally. Some are bearing unimaginable costs for following their conscience.
In moments like these, it feels especially important that we care for ourselves…
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WOW! With your support and encouragement, 2025 was a very good year for Haiku Milieu:
155 haiku and image pairings published
67 artists featured in Haiku Milieu concerts
54 Haiku Milieu email newsletters published
46 new songs inspired by Haiku…
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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, 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 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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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…
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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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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