Like copywriters, haiku poets know how to pack a punch with a few words. Marc Awodey, Burlington artist/poet and art critic for Seven Days, has considerable cred where this Japanese form is concerned: ...

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This contest is inspired by WelchM (Michael Dylan Welch), a poet and haiku scholar whom your word-game hosts met in the Writers' Club on AOL. He is the editor of Woodnotes, a quarterly haiku and ...

It is tempting, though probably entirely incorrect, to think of the haiku (and its close relation, the senryu) as the Japanese equivalent of the sonnet. In both cases you are looking at concise verse ...

TOKYO -- Public broadcaster NHK's AI-based announcer "News no Yomiko" will try her hand -- or algorithms -- at composing senryu poetry based on current events, it was announced on March 12. Yomiko ...

FUKUOKA -- A Japanese toilet manufacturer has awarded the grand prize in its toilet-related senryu poetry contest to an insightful work depicting a once dependent child growing up. Senryu is a ...

Most of us are familiar with the Haiku poetic form–or at least we think we are. Haiku are 3 lined short poems about nature with a serious theme and have a Japanese kigo (seasonal word) or a kireji (a ...

Senryu’s Wil Wright found a surprise when he finished working on the band’s new album, “The Jaws of Life.” “All through tracking and through the infinite wait for the mix I was sure I had made a pop ...