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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When I was a child, my mother wrote little poems and put them in our lunch boxes, my dad’s hunting gear, my brother’s duffle bag, ...

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 ...

* 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. The website nahaiwrimo.com urges us to write one haiku a day for the month of February. "Why February? Because it’s the shortest month, for the world’s ...

Learn how to capture the delicate balance between human-built cities and the natural world. How do cities impact nature? In this video, Jeff Kass introduces the concept of urban sprawl and teaches us ...

Washington State Ferries (WSF) will host its third annual Twitter Haiku contest starting March 9 and running through March 13. Users can submit ferry-related poems as a Tweet. WSF said it started the ...

Each installment of The Friendship Files features a conversation between The Atlantic’s Julie Beck and two or more friends, exploring the history and significance of their relationship. This week she ...

One of the glorious things about the Berwyn music club FitzGerald’s is that when you walk in the door you never know what you might hear on stage. One night could be bluegrass, another acoustic jazz, ...