High School and Middle School Art Exhibition” showcases mark making by promising artists at the State Art Museum through June 6 in the John Meyers Lobby Gallery. Peyton Stone’s “Skull of Deer” was ...

Forrest Gander’s​ first collection of poems appeared in 1988. He grew up in Virginia and his early work seemed ...

By Western standards, the haiku is far-out poetry. It does not rhyme ... Henderson inherited from his father a love of Japanese art and literature, nourished by several long visits to the country.

Haiku: Japanese Poems for the Four Seasons by Ornella Civardi ... grief, healing, and love’s power to redeem. 60,000-copy announced first printing. House of Anansi Shadow Price by Farah Ghafoor ...

with “Alone in Two Billion Light Years” — a book that heralded a bold new voice who shunned haiku and other traditional Japanese forms of verse. In the title poem from that collection ...

TOKYO — Shuntaro Tanikawa, who pioneered modern Japanese poetry, poignant but conversational in its divergence from haiku and other ... the respectful love for the beauty of the Japanese ...

With thousands of classical Chinese poems by masters of the Tang Dynasty (618–907 ... While most American students have composed a Japanese Haiku, few have read, let alone composed, a Chinese jueju (a ...

From folklore legends and anime films to literary classics and traditional poetry ... including a haiku dedicated to a cat wasted by passion and malnutrition: “The she cat / Grown thin / From love and ...

He instructed each student to memorize three poems of their choosing from the ... Perhaps we learn the basic form of the haiku in grade school or the shape of the Shakespearean sonnet a few ...

a competitive Japanese card game in which players match the different parts of poems from the Hyakunin Isshu haiku anthology. The actions of the players here embody the principle of “two worlds ...

The next issues of the Asahi Haikuist Network appear on June 6 and 20. Readers are invited to send haiku about lying down on ...

the poet establishes an image before expressing the irrationality of love in the second half. The second source of inspiration is an old saying among composers of haiku that their poems should be ...