Teenagers sit in inflatable chairs in a dorm lobby, holding cups of fruit punch and trading laptops that are open to short stories and fantasy novels. Before lights out at this summer camp, students ...

A Haiku contest is a literary competition where participants submit haiku poems, a traditional Japanese form of poetry. Haiku are known for their simplicity, nature themes, and specific structure.

National poetry month was started in 1996 by the Academy of American Poets, and encourages people to pay attention to and enjoy poetry. Here are some ways to celebrate around D.C.

Saeko Mori and her Haiku (Photo provided) Saeko and Emiko, her daughter, have been friends of mine since 1985 when their family hosted me for an over-night homestay as part of my fellowship in Japan.

Haiku: Japanese Poems for the Four Seasons by Ornella Civardi, illus. by Kaori Yamaguchi (Apr. 15, $25 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-7892-1506-2), is an illustrated collection of classic haiku by ...

TOKYO — Shuntaro Tanikawa, who pioneered modern Japanese poetry, poignant but conversational in its divergence from haiku and other traditions, has died. He was 92. Tanikawa, who translated the ...

Why not have a go at writing your own poem! Whether it's rap, acrostic, haiku, sonnet, ballad or ... You could also go to special poetry events or even read your work out loud to friends and family.

Haiku are three-line poems with five syllables in the first and third lines, and seven syllables in the second line. In their study of nearly 4,000 haiku, recently published in the journal PLOS ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — The fight over Haiku Stairs went back into a Honolulu courtroom as part of a last-ditch effort to stop the stairs from being dismantled, a group is asking the court to inte… ...