Haiku poems decorate downtown Skowhegan During National Poetry Month the traditional Japanese poetry is part of the Wesserunsett Arts Council bid to promote the arts in the region.

5) Traditional Japanese haiku poems often used imagery from nature; however, haiku can be about almost anything. The themes (big ideas) are not too complex for people to recognize and understand.

The National Poetry Slam is in town and competitors go head-to-head to decide who is the Haiku Master in this rapid-fire poetic competition on Aug. 10, 2017 at the Denver Public Library in Denver.

Haiku written by local children as part of the Rain Poetry project by nonprofit PA Humanities will soon be displayed on ...

April 17 is the date for International Haiku Poetry Day because that’s how many syllables you’re allowed in a traditional haiku poem: precisely 17, divided into three lines of five, seven and ...

But the Golden Triangle Haiku Contest has seemingly thrown all that to to the blowsy, dancing, purple poetic wind. An exhaustive hunt throughout the Golden Triangle—more commonly known as Downtown ...

Users collaborate to create simple, three-line poems inspired by, but not necessarily in the form of, traditional Japanese haiku poems or a series of three photos that tell a story.

Professor Sill and his team have done a remarkable job, capturing every single one of Nick Virgilio’s Haiku poems, citing publication date, prizes awarded, and the year in which each poem was ...

While Japanese haiku is generally about nature, Indian haikuists are exploring themes of war, refugees and human suffering ...

Haiku insists on concrete sense images, of which there are many in the priest’s poetry. It emphasizes the object itself rather than any metaphoric potential the image has, and it marks time with kigo ...