PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Columbia Gorge. A haiku challenge contest. You could be featured. Friends of the Columbia Gorge is celebrating National Poetry Month with a Spring Gorge Haiku Challenge. The ...

Michael S. Williamson / The Washington Post John Kelly’s front yard? No, Brookside Gardens in Wheaton, Md., last spring. Tulips are starting to push up all over, a reminder to enter John’s annual ...

*Objection to the above sample: “No matter what you were taught in 11th grade English, the poems [haiku] do not have to be three lines of five-syllable, seven-syllable, five-syllable form. There’s a ...

Can you write a haiku about spring? Sure you can! Here are the details, which are simple indeed. The deadline is Monday to share your haiku and a photo at news@sosalem.com.

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. John J. Dunphy, owner of Second Reading Book Shop in Alton, Ill., loves to write haiku, a traditional Japanese form of poetry. As ...

Can you write a haiku about spring? Sure you can! Here are the details, which are simple indeed. The deadline is Monday to share your haiku and a photo at news@sosalem.com.

HAIKU: A POET'S GUIDE by Lee Gurga, Illinois: Modern Haiku Press, 2003, 170 pp., $20 (paper). HAIKU: The Poetic Key to Japan, selected & introduced by Mutsuo ...