It seems a safe bet that the Japanese Zen Buddhist monks who developed the art of haiku were not anticipating poems about Kathie Lee Gifford. No, those 17th-century monks had nobler goals; they were ...

Four volumes of Japanese haiku poems written by a variety of masters are among the items up for bids in this week’s Professor Parsons’ Picks auction sponsored by the Friends of A.K. Smiley Public ...

Up the barley rows, stitching, stitching them together, a butterfly goes. -Sora (1648-1710) In the U.S., poetry reading is left mostly to poets -and there are not many poets around. Magazines devoted ...

Turns out haiku doesn’t need to have three lines—and other things you might learn on a tour of Japan’s historic poetry sites. A 17th-century feudal castle overlooks Matsuyama, Japan, the ...

“A bridge of shirts / built between trees / torsos budding.” So reads a modern Japanese haiku about spring in Vermont, written by Montpelier poet Michiko Oishi and translated in collaboration with ...

Haiku is “an electric shock that wakens us to reality,” said poet Víctor Terán in Spanish from the stage of the Mark Taper Auditorium at ALOUD at the Los Angeles Central Library on Tuesday night.

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