February is National Haiku Writing Month. The website nahaiwrimo.com urges us to write one haiku a day for the month of February. "Why February? Because it’s the shortest month, for the world’s ...

People attend the "emergency protest" organized by an anti-war and social justice coalition ... My first encounter with poetry was a haiku by my father. He would say to me, “You can write ...

The haikuist mourned the war dead and prayed for peace yesterday, the anniversary of Emperor Hirohito’s surrender. Masumi Orihara suggested the next haiku “echoes with the feeling of loss at ...