Turns out haiku doesn’t need to have three lines—and other things you might learn on a tour of Japan’s historic poetry sites. A 17th-century feudal castle overlooks Matsuyama, Japan, the ...

What's a short, sweet way to express your love? With love haikus! Love haiku poems offer a concise and beautiful way to share your feelings with someone you care about. Whether you need something ...

* 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 ...

Up the barley rows, stitching, stitching them together, a butterfly goes. -Sora (1648-1710) In the U.S., poetry reading is left mostly to poets -and there are not many poets around. Magazines devoted ...

I like to design engaging brain games that help stimulate divergent thinking and creative collaboration. One of my favorite exercises is the innovation haiku. It’s not only a useful skill for ...

Former Belgian Prime Minister and avid haiku poet Herman Van Rompuy speaks during an event in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, on July 11, 2022. (Mainichi/Hiroyuki Tanaka) TOKYO -- Japan's haiku circles ...

Four volumes of Japanese haiku poems written by a variety of masters are among the items up for bids in this week’s Professor Parsons’ Picks auction sponsored by the Friends of A.K. Smiley Public ...

THE magnificent exhibition of classical Japanese painting and sculpture which toured the United States two years ago amazed the American museum public with its revelation of a tradition comparable in ...

Author Kala Ramesh at the Jaipur Literature Festival in Jaipur on Saturday.Express Photo by Rohit Jain Paras 12/03/2022 Kala Ramesh’s first attempt to write a haiku poem didn’t go as planned. “This is ...