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.” ...

Known as tsiattista, the tradition combines quick thinking, lyrical flair and a deep sense of cultural pride. A violin and lute open a traditional poetry and dance competition on the Larnaca promenade ...

Group based in Whitehorse wants writers from across the North to participate in workshops and contribute to poetry collection ...

June 20, 2025 A little Matariki Haiku During our Matariki special Waatea was gifted a special Haiku. A haiku is a short form of Japanese poetry traditionally consisting of three lines with a 5-7-5 ...

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 original haiku in Japanese rolls off the tongue with its alliteration using m and k, its use of the syllable "mu" at the start of the first five syllables and the start of the middle seven ...

M any of us probably have memories of writing short, clever haikus in school, trying to craft the best verse possible within the confines of the five syllable, seven syllable, five syllable structure.

The 17-syllable structure of haiku comes from the sounding out of Japanese phonetic units called on (“sounds” in English). Syllables are not exact counterparts to on; in fact, one English ...

The Genre Haiku is a type of brief poetic expression that flourished in Japan around 1600 and consists, in its canonical form, of three verses divided into seventeen syllables (which would ...