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 ...

I have been honored with many awards before, but this is the first time I have attended a ceremony in person," said the poet ...

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･･･ ...

The submission themes: belonging, serenity, metamorphosis and even life in the city are all uniquely human experiences.

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.