The National Haiku Writing Month logo has a line drawn through 5-7-5 for a good reason. But English-language haiku poets long ago rejected the 5-7-5 format.

This was true in 1991, and it’s just as true this February, which marks the third annual National Haiku Writing Month. Poet Michael Dylan Welch, who designated February as NaHaiWriMo, even put a ...

New year, more poetry: Tess Taylor ended 2022 by sharing how writing a daily haiku changed her life. Now she’s ending 2023 and greeting a new year by inviting CNN Opinion readers to share how ...

As a new year prompts many of us to contemplate starting afresh, changing old habits or forming new ones, poet Tess Taylor describes how writing a haiku a day helps her feel more buoyant, more ...

The world offers its compositions all day long if we are paying attention, and the practice of haiku helps us to pay attention, Chad Sweeney writes.

She posted, people responded favorably and the “ride” has produced this charming and thought-provoking gathering of 120 photos and haiku (from the nearly 500 she created). “haiku milieu ...

Include your name and hometown and write 2020 HAIKU in the subject line. There’s no prize, only a bit of glory and a sense of accomplishment that comes from taking one final cathartic smack at ...

New year, more poetry: Tess Taylor ended 2022 by sharing how writing a daily haiku changed her life. Now she’s ending 2023 and greeting a new year by inviting CNN Opinion readers to share how ...