Reflecting on the journey of anticipation and preparation leading to Christ’s birth, these short verses capture the season of ...

TOKYO (AP) — Shuntaro Tanikawa, who pioneered modern Japanese poetry, poignant but conversational in its divergence from haiku and other traditions, has died. He was 92. Tanikawa, who translated the ...

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He traveled to Edo (now Tokyo) as a young man to study Confucianism, where he became friends with Bashō, two years his junior, through their shared love for haiku. He wrote the above haiku in ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I wonder if I will miss the moss,” by Jane Mead, and his own poem “Mother.” ...

A task runner that works well with poetry.

I Celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease observing a ...

As in the gold mosaic of a wall, Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre, And be the singing-masters of my soul. William Butler Yeats, widely considered one of the greatest poets of the English ...

and a poetically inclined sibling composes Japanese haikus: "I would like to have/Pussy and rock 'n' roll/Every damn day", which certainly conforms to the syllabic metre, though its profundity is ...