Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years edited by Jim Kacian, Philip Rowland, and Allan Burns, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 424 pages For more than a decade, The Pasatiempo Writing Contest has ...

April 17 was International Haiku Poetry Day and, on that day, artist and poet Annette Makino received exciting news. Makino, of Arcata, was awarded one of the highest honors for English-language haiku ...

It’s my mostly annual and wildly popular Taxgirl Tax Haiku! Here's what you need to know to write a tax haiku (俳句). Haiku is a form of Japanese poetry. The best part? It’s short. Traditional haiku ...

It’s my mostly annual and wildly popular taxgirl Tax Haiku! Here's what you need to know to write a tax haiku (俳句). Haiku is a form of Japanese poetry. The best part? It’s short. Traditional haiku ...

Haiku, a poem typically consisting of 17 syllables in three lines of five, seven and five syllables, has spread beyond the boundaries of its country of origin. Lovers of this form of poetry have now ...

In his poetry collections, Jacob D. Salzer beckons readers to unplug from the sea of digital distractions to soak in the beauty and wonder of life through the art of haiku and tanka. BookLife chatted ...

* 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 ...

If you work downtown, you might have noticed yellow signs featuring haiku in the flower beds around the Golden Triangle Business Improvement District. These are courtesy of the BID’s annual Golden ...

Churches and their "code" / It's like when they say, "bless you" / And yet no one sneezed. Another came from the comic Jessica Delfino: Glenn Beck, why so vexed? / You seemed cooler back when you / ...