No, Brookside Gardens in Wheaton, Md., last spring. Tulips are starting to push up all over, a reminder to enter John’s annual Springtime in Washington haiku contest. Perspective by John Kelly ...

Even without a calendar, you know when spring has arrived. You can feel it in the air. And Vicki Elsbernd’s poem about something recently in the air — and in the news — tickled me enough to ...

Making Spring haiku--it is not rocket science. Follow this pattern. *Objection to the above sample: “No matter what you were taught in 11th grade English, the poems [haiku] ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Columbia Gorge. A haiku challenge contest. You could be featured. Friends of the Columbia Gorge is celebrating National Poetry Month with a Spring Gorge Haiku Challenge ...

It’s no small task to judge the BID’s haiku contest. The judges read more than 3,100 individual haiku that were submitted by more than 1,600 people. Submissions came from all 50 states, Puerto Rico, ...

The submission themes: belonging, serenity, metamorphosis and even life in the city are all uniquely human experiences.

Back in middle school English class, haiku was the perfect poetry. Haiku poems were short, and the rules of engagement were simple. The first line contained five syllables, the middle line ...

Haiku poetry contest prompts UD community to share thoughts and hope. It should be no surprise that the last two years have had Blue Hens feeling more introspective than usual. The University of ...

Group based in Whitehorse wants writers from across the North to participate in workshops and contribute to poetry collection ...

Earlier haiku described their powerful cry “lengthen[ing] the hill[s]”; a poem written in 2022 found them “calling across wintry mudflats, haunting the wind”.