HAMDEN-- Its structure is succinct and to the point. It normally speaks to things of beauty: nature, love, spirituality. Oddly enough, though it's a form of poetry that's been around for thousands of ...

April is National Poetry Month and today’s Classroom Extra page wants to bring out the poet in you. Read on to learn how to write one of the world’s simplest and oldest forms of poetry – haiku. Haiku ...

NASA's next mission to Mars will carry what no spacecraft has carried before: more than a thousand 17-syllable haiku poems, digitized on a decorated DVD. The "Message to Mars" haiku contest is part of ...

Every day for more than two years, West Seattle's Danny Bland wrote a haiku. Three lines—five syllables, seven syllables, and five syllables. Danny Bland wired his writing mind to this traditional ...

It's April 1, a day of celebrations - April Fools' Day, Easter Sunday and the first day of Poetry Month. Twitter is now officially open to your submissions to hashtag #nprpoetry. Every year, we get ...

Hey, what’s up with that? Long before Twitter seduced us with the dastardly task of expressing ourselves in no more than 140 characters, there was another exercise of complex simplicity. The haiku.

The writer of a book of haiku says she never thought of herself as a poet, but she is coming to Livingston to promote her ...