Poems are like trees. They come in all shapes and sizes. There are: Big ones. Messy ones. Ordered ones. Small ones. Haikus are small poems that share a moment in time with very few words. They ...

Emily Brisse, 29, of Chanhassen is a teacher at Watertown-Mayer High School, with classes ranging from Mythology to Mass Communications to Creative Writing, her favorite. And she is a poet whose ...