Poet Profile

Bob Stewart

Bob Stewart grew up in a small town in eastern Kansas before attending the University of Kansas, where he obtained a BS in Astronomy in 1994. He has worked as a high school physics teacher since 1998. He first found haiku during his college years and not much later read Hass’s The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson & Issa and Higginson’s The Haiku Handbook. This led to some occasional dabbling in writing haiku. However, it was not until the summer of 2024 that he became a student of haiku. And the journey continues.

narrow valley
the river bends
the road

urban renewal
laying pipe big enough
to sleep in

bluebird
the sky changes
its tune

first kiss
the whispers
of cottonwoods

confluence
she chooses not to
take his name

deportee camp
a double helix
of razor wire

Credits:

"narrow valley" - Wales Haiku Journal (Summer, 2025); "urban renewal" - tsuri-doro Issue #29 (2025); "bluebird"; "first kiss" - The Heron's Nest Vol. XXVII No. (Dec. 2025); "confluence" - Frogpond Vol. 48.3 (Autumn 2025); "deportee camp" - Modern Haiku vol. 56.3 (Autumn 2025).