WASHINGTON (AP) – The first White House state dinner in more than a year served up some surprises: a president reciting haiku, toasts using sake instead of champagne and the leader of Japan describing ...

Mar. 31—It's safe to assume that the Cowboy State has a thin history of Japanese haiku poets. Cheyenne resident Beth Howard, however, has been doing it since 2006. "I don't see haiku as an escape, but ...

Zakeri has collected 105 haikus written by 47 modern Japanese poets between 1900 and 1930. The book contains a prologue on the process of the development of the haiku in Japan. The compilation ...

* What can we learn about reading and writing haiku, in particular traditional Japanese haiku? * What can we learn about reading literature closely, by focusing on words and images in order to explore ...

Up the barley rows, stitching, stitching them together, a butterfly goes. -Sora (1648-1710) In the U.S., poetry reading is left mostly to poets -and there are not many poets around. Magazines devoted ...