The reliably accomplished John Niven’s latest novel is The Fathers (Canongate), a witty account of parenthood and masculinity ...

What is three lines of usually un-rhymed words totalling 17 syllables - 5 on first line, 7 in second line then 5 again in the last line? The answer of course? A Haiku poem. And a global search is ...

All this is bigger than ghazals, of course. Bigger than haiku. I’m saying we have to graduate from pastiche and mimicry to something higher.” ...

On Sunday, the festival will present eight poets: Jack Crimmins, Lisa Shulman, Dave Holt, Melissa Eleftherion, readings from ...

John Koethe spent decades as a philosophy professor. The poems in his latest collection, “Cemeteries and Galaxies,” are full ...

To save a World War II-era mountainside staircase marked for removal by the City and County of Honolulu, the Friends of Haiku ...

What does a conversation between the Skamander poets and the avant-garde look like? What does a frog do in Białoszewski’s ...

The University of Birmingham and Longleat in Wiltshire have collaborated on a new project re-examining the famous medieval poem, La Belle Dame sans Mercy (The Beautiful Lady without Mercy) by Alain ...

The clever contraption features a lens that observes its surroundings before using AI to craft a poem inspired by the scene. It then prints the verse through a slot on the front — similar to how a ...

Keene often referenced this famous haiku in his later lectures. When the haiku is romanized, the vowel "i" appears seven times. "This is what makes the haiku rhythmic," Keene said.

Donald Keene's journey tracing the footsteps of haiku poet Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) in Basho's masterpiece "Oku no Hosomichi," which Keene later trans･･･ ...