The world offers its compositions all day long if we are paying attention, and the practice of haiku helps us to pay attention, Chad Sweeney writes.

His talent for writing the introductory 5-7-5 syllabic lines of a haikai no renga popularized the art form of haiku. Despite the prohibition on travel, Bashō assumed the robes of a Buddhist monk and ...

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 ...

What does a conversation between the Skamander poets and the avant-garde look like? What does a frog do in Białoszewski’s ...

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- Here are events today through the end of August related to the Birmingham Museum of Art exhibition, "Lethal Beauty." The exhibition closes Sept. 21. Tuesdays, Aug. 12, 19 ...