The Honolulu City Council voted Wednesday to remove the famous Haiku Stairs. Council members unanimously approved to remove them "to stop trespassing, reduce disturbances to local neighborhoods, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Poetry is one of the most powerful art forms we have. Since ancient times, poems — from haikus to sonnets to limericks — have ...

More important than any formal constraints of haiku is the very essence of the form, which might simply be described as: brevity, observation, surprise. (That element of surprise might also be ...

From Japan's most famous haiku locations, HAIKU MASTERS introduces Photo Haikus sent in from around the world with its unique take on the art form, creating the ultimate social haiku experience.

Episode 1 of the new season takes place in Fukagawa, Tokyo where Basho wrote many of his famous haiku poems. Special guest Hideho Kindaichi, a revered linguistic scholar, along with our Haiku Masters ...