Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years edited by Jim Kacian, Philip Rowland, and Allan Burns, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 424 pages For more than a decade, The Pasatiempo Writing Contest has ...

Wally Swist (1953- ). From "Frogpond" Issue 16:2, Fall/Winter 1993. Haiku Society of America, USA.

If you ever had a unit on haiku in English class, the brunt of your effort reading and composing haiku was probably spent counting out the syllables: five-seven-five across three lines. Local writer ...

April 17 was International Haiku Poetry Day and, on that day, artist and poet Annette Makino received exciting news. Makino, of Arcata, was awarded one of the highest honors for English-language haiku ...

The annual selection of submissions to The Mainichi's Haiku in English column has been published online. Congratulations to all those whose haiku were featured online in 2023. We look forward to ...

It’s my mostly annual and wildly popular taxgirl Tax Haiku! Here's what you need to know to write a tax haiku (俳句). Haiku is a form of Japanese poetry. The best part? It’s short. Traditional haiku ...

The image startles the way many of Raymond Roseliep’s images startle. His association between the figure and the cornfield underscores Ezra Pound’s poetic dictum, “Make it new.” As dark and as stark ...

The haikuist mourned the war dead and prayed for peace yesterday, the anniversary of Emperor Hirohito’s surrender. Masumi Orihara suggested the next haiku “echoes with the feeling of loss at the end.” ...

In his poetry collections, Jacob D. Salzer beckons readers to unplug from the sea of digital distractions to soak in the beauty and wonder of life through the art of haiku and tanka. BookLife chatted ...

If you work downtown, you might have noticed yellow signs featuring haiku in the flower beds around the Golden Triangle Business Improvement District. These are courtesy of the BID’s annual Golden ...