Companies like Nest are trying to jazz up boring products by adding cool, new features but also by giving them a design makeover. Normally that means a glowing screen, but Big Ass Solutions, founders ...

Years ago it hit, as politicians droned on: Haiku offers relief. I've long loved the form and email friends in this way. Makes you distill thoughts. Classic iambic, elegant, rhythmic stanzas call. Yet ...

In this fractured world, a new book by award-winning haiku poet and artist Annette Makino hopes to provide a dose of Zen wisdom and humor. “Water and Stone: Ten Years of Art and Haiku” is a full-color ...

Every Sunday, we publish reader-submitted haiku. Local poets translate the simple beauty of Lancaster County into short and simple poems. Here's a selection of four haiku: A full moon, pale pink. It ...

Across three lines and 17 syllables, a North Vancouver writer has endeavoured to capture the spirit of what’s been dubbed “these uncertain times” using a certain poetic form. Insurance consultant by ...

In commemoration of the establishment of The Lillian Maeda Memorial Tea and Haiku Collection, the Wailuku Public Library, 251 High St., will hold a demonstration of a traditional Japanese tea ceremony ...

THE NICK OF TIME: Essays on Haiku Aesthetics, by Paul O. Williams. Edited by Lee Gurga and Michael Dylan Welch. Foster City, CA: Press Here Books, 2001, 112 pp., paper ($12) What is a haiku, really?