A global search is underway for the best ones, with the New York based Society of Classical Poets launching its annual Haiku Competition. Evan Mantyk is Editor & President of the Society and joined ...

Love haiku poems offer a concise and beautiful way to share your feelings with someone you care about. ... also famous during ...

Congress is trying to figure out how to fund the government so they can just go home for the holidays. This has been difficult, and at this point, no one knows what is going on. (Editor's note ...

He became a vulnerable priest caring for vulnerable sisters, comforting them when they were sick and dying, as well as celebrating mass for them. It was work that would have resonated with Bashō, the ...

Hall’s 2000 poem “Distressed Haiku” is clearly about Kenyon—but also, in a broader sense, about moving forward in time when it means growing farther from those you’ve lost.

Several sites boast a link to one of the “big four” poets of the haiku world: Yosa Buson (1716-1784), Kobayashi Issa (1763-1828), Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902), and, the most famous of all, Basho.

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 ...