Haiku written by local children as part of the Rain Poetry project by nonprofit PA Humanities will soon be displayed on ...

You may have learned about a form of short poem called haiku. Perhaps you were asked to write one using the five-seven-five formula: one line of five syllables, one line of seven syllables and a ...

POEMS ALOUD Written by Joseph Coelho. Illustrated by Daniel Gray-Barnett “Poems are made to be performed!” Coelho declares early in this rousing book, which guides young readers through the ...

Another poem reads, “The year’s first dream—/ a secret I spoke to no one,/ smiling to myself” and in an accompanying illustration, a boy rests on the back of a cloudlike, blue cat ...

In poet and “Method Writing” author Jack Grapes’ 316 page essay (plus wonderful illustrations), we have a useful history of haiku in Japan, America and internationally.

The president of the European Union, Herman Van Rompuy, set aside politics to launch his first anthology of Japanese-style poetry on Thursday.

Herman Van Rompuys haiku poetry is already as much a part of inside-the-Brussels-beltway lore as endless summits, crooked cabbies and the question of whether the European Union will ever have a ...

The inaugural Books By the Bay festival is a celebration of writers and literature featuring everything from true crime to comics to children's books.

To enter, write a haiku that is a message to Mars. Haikus, of course, are three-line poems with a specific syllable count -- five syllables in the first line, seven syllables in the second, and ...

While Japanese haiku is generally about nature, Indian haikuists are exploring themes of war, refugees and human suffering ...