TOKYO (AP) — Shuntaro Tanikawa, who pioneered modern Japanese poetry, poignant but conversational in its divergence from haiku and other traditions, has died. He was 92. Tanikawa, who translated ...

A collective Lenten fast from making purchases at Target has been lengthened into a “full-out boycott,” Jamal Bryant, pastor of an Atlanta-area megachurch and one of the leaders of the campaign, an ...

A Nigerian creative writer and poet, Ibrahim Nureni, has emerged as the first Nigerian and African to be honoured at the prestigious Maya International Haiku Contest. Nureni earned second place in ...

Haiku poet Hakyo Ishida (1913-1969) penned this piece: “Chickweeds/ Sparrows the color of scorched earth.” Having lost his mother-in-law and other relatives in the Tokyo firebombing of March ...

As Shakespeare was surrounded by sonneteers, Basho was surrounded by haiku poets who recognised him as the master of form and expression. One of the great haiku poets of the time, Kobayashi Issa ...

She's saying that it felt like it was just her and the stars in the night sky.

Shorter forms of poetry like limericks and haiku are not only fun to write, but they also have a long history. When poets don’t have many words, they have to think carefully about their choice ...