These Japanese cities may inspire your next haiku 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.

Practicing social distancing to slow the spread of the coronavirus has quickly changed the way we live. As a way to process that change, Life Kit asked folks to write and share haikus.

Haiku poems decorate downtown Skowhegan During National Poetry Month the traditional Japanese poetry is part of the Wesserunsett Arts Council bid to promote the arts in the region.

Because of that particular requirement, many of the poems we get are haiku. That is a traditional Japanese form of poetry that's based on a five-seven-five syllable structure - or is it?

That's not all that Ghost of Tsushima gets wrong about the form. Ask anyone what a haiku is and they'll likely tell you it's a short poem written in three alternating lines made up of five, seven ...

Soon, she and friends instigated "barroom haiku" — passing napkins scrawled with partial poems to patrons until it reaches the end of the bar and gets recited.

Known as the shortest form of poetry in the world, the haiku has a startling capacity to open up and reveal worlds within.

The Mainichi has published our annual selection of submissions to our Haiku in English section for 2024. Congratulations to all those whose poems were ...

Haiku poems chart flowers appearing earlier and species retreating to the margins.