I f you ever had a unit on haiku in English class, the brunt of your effort reading and composing haiku was probably spent counting out the syllables: five-seven-five across three lines. Local ...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 -- American haiku? Didn't that go out with beatniks and bongo drums? Guess again. The terse Japanese poetic form flourishes in the English speaking world. As we choke on ...

Congratulations to everyone whose haiku were featured in 2017. To read the submissions and comments from selector Dhugal Lindsay, download the following PDF file: Haiku in English: Best of 2017 ...

Haiku, a poem typically consisting of 17 syllables in three lines of five, seven and five syllables, has spread beyond the boundaries of its country of origin. Lovers of this form of poetry have ...

There are also contests where students submit their haiku. One site is the Mainichi Daily News. It publishes a monthly selection of English haiku. The paper's English-language website, contains a ...

In The Modern English Haiku, acclaimed haiku poet and editor George Swede commented: “Here is a haiku that fails to communicate because it involves abstract ideas rather than tangible things.” From a ...

Haiku, a poem typically consisting of 17 syllables in three lines of five, seven and five syllables, has spread beyond the boundaries of its country of origin. Lovers of this form of poetry have ...

Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years edited by Jim Kacian, Philip Rowland, and Allan Burns, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 424 pages ...

The annual selection of submissions to The Mainichi's Haiku in English column has been published online. Congratulations to all those whose haiku were featured online in 2023.

Haiku, a poem typically consisting of 17 syllables in three lines of five, seven and five syllables, has spread beyond the boundaries of its country of origin. Lovers of this form of poetry have ...