Japanese haiku poetry, also known as the Japanese art of haiku poetry, is a minimalist and expressive form that hails from ...

The Characteristics and Vocabulary of Haiku “Poetry in microcosm—a world of ideas in three brief lines of verse” (Britton, pg.7). Haiku are “thought-provokers.” Haiku poets are not interested in ...

As a class, make up a poem with two images. List ideas on board. Put two images together to form haiku. Have students write their own haiku, I always recommend that you write when your students do.

Haiku are three-line poems with five syllables in the first and third lines, and seven syllables in the second line. In their study of nearly 4,000 haiku, recently published in the journal PLOS ...

This haiku by Bashō is based in part on an anonymous waka in the Kokin wakashū poetry anthology: Hototogisu / naku ya satsuki no / ayamegusa / ayame mo shiranu / koi mo suru kana (The cuckoo ...

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 ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — The University of Arizona’s Poetry Center, along with the Downtown Tucson Partnership, is displaying a Haiku Hike for the sixth year. If you’re walking along downtown ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Recruitment news every morning. The first winning poem of our weekly workplace haiku/senryu contest by Valerie Nelson of Edmonton ...

He particularly liked haiku that reflected the spirit of Zen—moving poems that viewed the self as a small part of the wider universe, and aimed at a kind of loving union with nature.” ...