If you’ve ever wanted to learn to write short, insightful poetry about the human experience, an exhibit featuring haiku and senryu may get you started.

Charlotte Digregorio, the author of Haiku and Senryu: A Simple Guide for All, will exhibit her illustrated haiku (haiga) at Northfield Public Library, 1785 Orchard Lane, Northfield, IL the month of July. Her solo exhibit will feature three-line haiku, haiku sequences with a theme, and senryu, the latter in the haiku form but with a focus on the theme of human nature, rather than nature.     .

Haiku originated in Japan in the 1600s and is now written in free form in the English language, often without the structure of five syllables in the first line, seven syllables in the second line, and five syllables in the third line. Senryu originated in Japan in the 1700s and is often humorous.

“I love the simplicity  and…