On rainy days, Reading’s sidewalks will shine with the creativity of young writers from the area. Haiku written by local children as part of the Rain Poetry project by nonprofit PA Humanities will ...

Here's how to help the poemless: go to the poetry shelves in the children’s section of your local library. Grab a book by David Harrison, or Marilyn Singer, or Charles Waters, or Eric Ode, or one of ...

What does a conversation between the Skamander poets and the avant-garde look like? What does a frog do in Białoszewski’s ...

Mary Margaret Hughes, who got her start in classrooms and on stages in Springfield, writes about how creativity and inspiration can snowball.

TOKYO — Shuntaro Tanikawa, who pioneered modern Japanese poetry, poignant but conversational in its divergence from haiku and other traditions, has died. He was 92. Tanikawa, who translated the ...

How memorizing poetry can expand your life I was always a reluctant reader of poetry, but memorizing a poem every week gave me a new understanding of myself.

Kiriti Sengupta's Oneness: a collection of poems with haiku, paintings, and profound reflections on life and emotions.

These Japanese cities may inspire your next haiku 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.

Explore 9 beautiful haiku poems offering gentle reminders of balance and serenity. Embrace mindfulness through simplicity in poetry.

We are full of our life experiences, the wonderful and the difficult, full of the history of the decades we’ve lived as well.

Katya Sabaroff Taylor, author of "My Haiku Life" and "Prison Wisdom," believes we all have stories and poems inside of us waiting for expression. Email her at [email protected]. I want to tell ...