Diana Perkins of Highlands Ranch, winner of The Denver Post’s $25 Haiku contest this week, wrote this on the topic of “school:” Alarm clock shock. S’up? Not me! Grab pack, hat, skateboard ...

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 ...

Haiku, a traditional form of Japanese poetry, was the centerpiece of a recent Baltimore County Public Schools’ contest.The challenge posed to students was to write a haiku on the theme of family.

You know the drill: your teacher asks you to compose a poem, you drum your fingers for a few hours and come up with something sickly sweet and frankly, a bit embarrassing. But not this fourth ...

Victor, N.Y. – The Victor School District is now responding to a 13WHAM News report about a controversial 300-page book published by some of its students.The book is a collection of haiku poems ...

5) Traditional Japanese haiku poems often used imagery from nature; however, haiku can be about almost anything. The themes (big ideas) are not too complex for people to recognize and understand. Some ...

What does it take to write haiku? Basically you need to be attuned to your senses and the world around you. When you write a haiku, you are sharing an event or an object that has touched you. Where ...