Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include, most recently, “Normal Distance” and “Any Person Is the Only Self.” ...

Joyce Kilmer famously wrote, “I think that I shall never see/A poem lovely as a tree.” Well, south Minneapolis has a tree ...

The teacher decides to teach them about haiku. The three move to a park, and together with other young animals, compose poems. This picture book helps children learn about haiku, and will surely ...

Insects are often seen as pests, rather than poetic. Is it possible to write a poem that does flies or crickets justice? In this episode, Simon Armitage, the poet laureate asks whether fruit flies ...

is the result of a rigorous online search for the best haiku poetry from around the world. Spearheaded by the visionary Stephen FitzGerald, this annual search for the best invites poets from ...

Sijo is a traditional form of Korean poetry that stylistically resembles a haiku but allows for more flexibility and creativity for the development of a theme, narrative or image. Each line is 14 ...

Absolute Bagels was the subject of the first haiku I wrote on some forgotten holiday more than a decade ago: News has been spreading fast that Samak Thongkrieng, who founded Absolute Bagels in the ...

It is akin to Haiku poetry, where a poet has to express everything in just three lines." He also encouraged the audience to "watch short films very minutely and feel free to discuss their queries ...

Angelou’s most memorable poems remain outstanding not just because of her mastery of the written word; they are impactful because she had an innate ability to fluidly translate some of her most ...

Because human affairs are complicated and confusing, poems about them tend to be long.” This pithy haiku by Teiichi Suzuki in Osaka was influenced by Basho and the Chinese poet Chuang Tzu (369BC ...

The haikuist’s aunt celebrated a centenary in good health and spirits, admitting to her niece that she felt “a little embarrassed to have lived so long.” Satoru Kanematsu celebrated an ...