The Booker Prize-winning author recommends three works by writers who, thanks to geography, may have never received their due ...

Donald Keene's journey tracing the footsteps of haiku poet Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) in Basho's masterpiece "Oku no Hosomichi," which Keene later trans･･･ ...

A Haiku contest is a literary competition where participants submit haiku poems, a traditional Japanese form of poetry. Haiku are known for their simplicity, nature themes, and specific structure.

Two social work researchers from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa are set to begin a pioneering study exploring an innovative blend of mindful meditation practices. Focusing on reflection with ...

Shuntaro Tanikawa, Japan’s most popular poet for more than half a century, whose stark and whimsical poems, blending humor with melancholy, made him a kind of Everyman philosopher ideally suited ...

Contains Strong Language, the BBC’s flagship poetry and performance festival is leaving British shores for the first time in its eight years—to put a spotlight on Australia.

American poet Jane Hirshfield flings open the first of ten windows with the observation that we “feel something stir, shiver, swim its way into the world when a good poem opens its eyes’’.

Haiku are three-line poems with five syllables in the first and third lines, and seven syllables in the second line. In their study of nearly 4,000 haiku, recently published in the journal PLOS ...

This year, ABC Education invited primary and secondary students across Australia to write a haiku based on the theme Space and our Solar System. A haiku is a Japanese poem of 17 syllables, written ...

Discover the soul-stirring world of haiku poetry with 9 heartfelt poems that capture the essence of mindfulness. Saniya Ahmad Khan 677 Stories Wednesday March 27, 2024 , 4 min Read ...

Earlier haiku described their powerful cry “lengthen[ing] the hill[s]”; a poem written in 2022 found them “calling across wintry mudflats, haunting the wind”.

A successful haiku could be described as a half-finished poem. Originating in Japan in the 17th century, the haiku uses a combination of sensory language, seasonal references, a sense of contrast and ...