During the last 18 months of his life, struggling with failing health and living in exile in Paris, Richard Wright devoted himself almost exclusively to writing haiku. His emotional life was agonizing ...

An Interview with bilingual haikuist Gabriel Rosenstock (Part 1) Gabriel Rosenstock, a writer who has published over 400 books, is almost certainly the most prolific haiku writer ...

Napa County Libraries invited Haiku poetry to abound. In Sept. 8, the Napa Library welcomed writers and poets into a large room with so appreciated air-conditioning. Haiku guru John Petraglia (he has ...

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

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 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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. simona pilolla 2 via Shutterstock What's a short, sweet way to express your love? With love haikus! Love haiku poems offer a ...

Basho by Kinkoku Yokoi (1761-1832). Source: Wikimedia Commons In mid-December, I got out my favorite book of haiku, The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa, edited by Robert Hass. I ...