The Mainichi has published our annual selection of submissions to our Haiku in English section for 2024. Congratulations to all those whose poems were featured throughout the year. We look forward to ...

Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years edited by Jim Kacian, Philip Rowland, and Allan Burns, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 424 pages ...

The image startles the way many of Raymond Roseliep’s images startle. His association between the figure and the cornfield underscores Ezra Pound’s poetic dictum, “Make it new.” As dark and as stark ...

* 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 ...

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 ...

their sky all that remains ... Tokihiko Kusama (1920-2003). From "Sixteen Haiku" (translated by Jack Stamm), Nagata Shobo, Tokyo, 1992. Several translations exist for this haiku, which was originally ...

Churches and their "code" / It's like when they say, "bless you" / And yet no one sneezed. Another came from the comic Jessica Delfino: Glenn Beck, why so vexed? / You seemed cooler back when you / ...

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 ...