Haiku is a form of Japanese poetry which originated in 13th century Japan. Later, the form was mastered by the 17th century Japanese haiku master, Matsuo Basho. There are currently multiple ...

Students will develop an understanding of Basho, the man and the poet, as a prominent figure in Japanese literature. Students will experience Japanese poetry through haiku. Standard 1. Students know ...

WESTFIELD — Everett Decker can be a man of few words, but he is a man of many poems. A proficient writer of haiku, a Japanese brief form of poetry, he created 1,789 haiku-influenced poems based on ...

This week’s guest on “Poetry from Daily Life” is Maryfrances Wagner, who lives in the Greater Kansas City Area. Maryfrances began writing poems as an eighth grader and today writes mainly poetry and ...

Anshika Lal (left) and Caprice Jackson, of Tiny WPA, install the Rain Poetry exhibit at Vernon Park. Some of the haiku, written by elementary students, will be permanently visible. Others will be ...

For as many years as Jerry Ball has been writing haiku, the world as he views it, he said, never stays the same. There’s beauty in every changing moment. Even as summerlike warm weather ushers in the ...

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 ...

Here's how it works. Sixteen competitors go head to head, crafting 17-syllable poems based on topic suggestions from the audience. When there's only one contestant left standing — which will probably ...

Standard 1. Students read and understand a variety of materials. Standard 5. Students read and recognize literature as a record of human experience. Standard 2. Students know physical and human ...

Turns out haiku doesn’t need to have three lines—and other things you might learn on a tour of Japan’s historic poetry sites. A 17th-century feudal castle overlooks Matsuyama, Japan, the ...