It's April 1, a day of celebrations - April Fools' Day, Easter Sunday and the first day of Poetry Month. Twitter is now officially open to your submissions to hashtag #nprpoetry. Every year, we get ...

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 ...

Situated in Portsmouth's historic Abraham Shaw House facing State Street, Single Island Press has opened its doors and a fresh guest book. Open since January, the small cluster of rooms, connected by ...

John J. Dunphy has written a terrific, easy-to-understand primer on what makes a haiku. At least it's fairly easy to understand..... What do you think? Imagine English-language haiku, one of the most ...

If it feels like winter is dragging its feet, here’s a harbinger of spring: Golden Triangle’s annual haiku competition—the one that plants blossom-pink yard signs with haiku in tree boxes throughout ...