This is an announcement from the Haiku Post Namimori League. Now, about this 5th anniversary collection. Up until now, we've ...

Haiku is a short poem, generally of not more than 17 syllables spread over three lines that originated in Japan. Its main characteristics are reference to nature and seasonal change, with particular ...

To celebrate National Poetry Month, The New York Times started a completely brilliant Tumblr, Times Haiku, wherein an algorithm combs through newly published articles for sentences that potentially ...

Robert Crawford goes in search of the “Ah-ness” of the haiku in his latest book, while Alan Spence’s new haiku collection combines comedy with genuine profundity, writes Stuart Kelly ...

I finished reading Aya Yoshino's poetry collection 'Summer Solstice Day'. I feel that poets tend to lean either toward the ...

Every Sunday, we publish reader-submitted haiku. Local poets translate the simple beauty of Lancaster County into short and simple poems. Here's a selection of four haiku: A full moon, pale pink. It ...

Haiku poems have reflected humans' experiences in nature for hundreds of years, including observations of bugs and other wildlife. Recently, Penn State researchers analyzed which insects were ...

* What can we learn about reading and writing haiku, in particular traditional Japanese haiku? * What can we learn about reading literature closely, by focusing on words and images in order to explore ...

As a social producer, I'm always trying to think of new ways to engage our communities. Last year, when we asked our Facebook audience to write a haiku inspired by a wintry photo, the overwhelmingly ...