In the past hundred years, haiku has gone far beyond its Japanese origins to become a worldwide phenomenon—with the classic poetic form growing and evolving a

Haiku originated in New York City in 1964, when Beat Generation poet Diane di Prima gave West Coast assemblage artist George Herms a series of seasonal poems th

FOR TWENTY YEARS, Robert Henry Poulin's poetry has electrified readers with its power, imagery and emotion. Now comes Poulin's first collection of haiku for kid

A Net of Fireflies is a superb collection of classic haiku composed by the leading writers of this delicate but intricate art form. With over three Japanese hun

The strictest and purest of poetic forms, the Japanese haiku contains in its seventeen sound characters (on) a reference to a season as well as a distinct pause