Back in middle school English class, haiku was the perfect poetry. Haiku poems were short, and the rules of engagement were simple. The first line contained five syllables, the middle line contained ...

Rene Nienaber of Centennial, winner of The Denver Post’s $25 Haiku contest this week, wrote this on the topic of “autumn”: Scarlet and gold trees Cast their ...

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: horses clip clopping over ...

3. Students apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and appreciate texts. They draw on their prior experience, their interactions with other readers and writers, their ...

During the last 18 months of his life, struggling with failing health and living in exile in Paris, Richard Wright devoted himself almost exclusively to writing haiku. His emotional life was agonizing ...

Haiku, by its nature, reminds us of the poem “Ordhek manobi tumi, ordhek kolpona.” Half is in the imagination, and the pursuit of this half doesn’t solely fall on the shoulders of the writer but also ...

Anshika Lal (left) and Caprice Jackson, of Tiny WPA, install the Rain Poetry exhibit at Vernon Park. Some of the haiku, written by elementary students, will be permanently visible. Others will be ...