Roughly one third of the inhabitants of a tiny, rural Japanese village in the Yamaguchi Prefecture have been killed—five bodies have been found, three of them in two separate fires. And, in a literary ...

One of the rules of haiku writing is to avoid “kigasanari,” or the use of two “kigo” seasonal phrases, in one 17-syllable poem. And should those kigo phrases happen to denote two seasons, the author ...

One of art’s unique features is the power to heighten our awareness, to bring us into direct contact with our senses, to activate our minds into a dynamic state which we may carry with us down the ...

* 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 ...

February is National Haiku Writing Month. According to a definition accepted by the Haiku Society of America, a haiku is a short poem that uses imagistic language to convey the essence of an ...

The Hoosic River Watershed Association invites the community to write haiku inspired by the Hoosic River and its surroundings for its "Haiku on the Hoosac" project. Haiku is a traditional form of ...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Haiku season opens today with the Golden Triangle Business Improvement District's 12 th annual international competition accepting haiku entries through Jan.

Email [email protected]. 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 ...

“Our mission is to write haiku for everyone on the whole entire planet,” says Lisa Markuson, the one woman in the poetry-writing trio The Haiku Guys. This might seem a bit ambitious, but given how ...

Haiku writing will be featured at an event on Nov. 19 in Sandusky. The event begins at 1:30 p.m. at Mr. Smith’s Coffee House, 140 Columbus Ave., and is open to the public and is free of charge. The ...