PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Columbia Gorge. A haiku challenge contest. You could be featured. Friends of the Columbia Gorge is celebrating National Poetry Month with a Spring Gorge Haiku Challenge. The ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — With the nice weather, it may be time to visit the Columbia River Gorge and celebrate this magnificent outdoor location with a haiku. Friends of the Columbia Gorge have ...

Michael S. Williamson / The Washington Post John Kelly’s front yard? No, Brookside Gardens in Wheaton, Md., last spring. Tulips are starting to push up all over, a reminder to enter John’s annual ...

Can you write a haiku about spring? Sure you can! Here are the details, which are simple indeed. The deadline is Monday to share your haiku and a photo at news@sosalem.com.

*Objection to the above sample: “No matter what you were taught in 11th grade English, the poems [haiku] do not have to be three lines of five-syllable, seven-syllable, five-syllable form. There’s a ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. John J. Dunphy, owner of Second Reading Book Shop in Alton, Ill., loves to write haiku, a traditional Japanese form of poetry. As ...

Huntsville Haiku on the steps on the east side of Big Spring International Park, part of Something Interesting Downtown, an initiative of Downtown Huntsville Inc. (Bob Gathany/bgathany@AL.com) ...

Can you write a haiku about spring? Sure you can! Here are the details, which are simple indeed. The deadline is Monday to share your haiku and a photo at news@sosalem.com.

HAIKU: A POET'S GUIDE by Lee Gurga, Illinois: Modern Haiku Press, 2003, 170 pp., $20 (paper). HAIKU: The Poetic Key to Japan, selected & introduced by Mutsuo Takahashi, photographs by Hakudo Inoue, ...

OK, it's taken a bit longer than expected -- sorry to keep you hanging -- but we finally have a winner in our vaunted Spring Haiku Contest. Some 148 of you budding ...