Nancy Huse, retired professor of English at Augustana College, will lead a class on  "Haiku as a Spiritual Practice - writing in the springtime" at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Quad Cities.  The class, which is open to the public, will be at 7 pm May 1 and May 8.  Haiku is a Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world.