Madeline Miller spent over a decade writing The Song of Achilles – a fantasy romance retelling of Homer’s epic poem The Iliad ...

The Pulitzer Center congratulates the 2025 Fighting Words Poetry Contest winners and finalists!This year's Fighting Words ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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･･･ ...

A haiku composed during this visit, shizukesa ya / iwa ni shimiiru / semi no koe (The stillness / the cicadas’ cries / sink into the rocks) is considered one of Bashō’s most famous.

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

The Best Haiku Collection, an initiative launched by HaikuCrush.com in 2021, is the result of a rigorous online search for the best haiku poetry from around the world.

Tanikawa was born in 1931, a son of philosopher Tetsuzo Tanikawa, and began writing poetry in his teens, circulating with the famous poets of that era, like Makoto Ooka and Shuji Terayama.