February is National Haiku Writing Month. The website nahaiwrimo.com urges us to write one haiku a day for the month of February. "Why February? Because it’s the shortest month, for the world’s ...

Haiku poetry. Remember learning about ... pencils and slips of paper in English or Japanese, with instructions like: “The topic should be about nature or people and their feelings.” ...

How do cities impact nature? In this video, Jeff Kass introduces the concept of urban sprawl and teaches us how to explore it through the ancient Japanese poetic form, haiku. Learn how to capture ...

Teachers can engage students in creative, informative activities to learn more about the spring equinox and how it is ...

Otherworldly kaiseki with a story to tell.

These Japanese poems are short and snappy and come with a simple set of rules that can focus your creative ideas as a beginner. Once you’ve written a few of these, try moving on to other forms – such ...

Join Village Books and North Cascades Institute in welcoming local author Kara Briggs for another installment in the Nature ... with form poetry, including haiku and haibun from the Japanese ...

💙 A haiku is a short poem originally from Japan. Haiku poems are made up of three lines, the first line must be made of five syllables, the second line made of seven syllables, and the third ...

A poem, or line of poetry, that I return to: Robert Hass’s translations of three great Japanese haiku poets: Matsuo Bashō, Yosa Buson, and Kobayashi Issa. Hass has so few words to work with ...