* 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 ...

Poetry is one of the most powerful art forms we have. Since ancient times, poems — from haikus to sonnets to limericks — have succinctly and beautifully translated the joys and sorrows of the world ...

Believe me when I say that by this point I am as bored as everyone else is by talk of the pandemic. But bear with me. One of the many peculiar things about our spell indoors – which somehow we can ...

Welcome to our Lit Party. In honor of National Poetry Month, Jhené Aiko takes our Haiku challenge, composing a few poems on the spot based on the word she picks out of a bowl. Aiko also shares about ...

Students will develop an understanding of Basho, the man and the poet, as a prominent figure in Japanese literature. Students will experience Japanese poetry through haiku. Standard 1. Students know ...

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 ...

Anybody can write poetry, they say. Perhaps, with a little help. In this case, a website called haiku.com comes as an apt avenue to blow off steam with fun haikus on random stuff. Even better is that ...

Lisa Ann Markuson is on a 100-day, 17-syllable mission. Each day for the last 44 days, the poet and social entrepreneur has pulled out her typewriter and written a haiku for a US senator, a project ...

The ladies who meet regularly in a museum cafe in Cologne skip the gossip and get straight down to haiku, an ultra-brief poetry style that has spread from Japan around the globe, dpa reported. Cologne ...