During the last 18 months of his life, struggling with failing health and living in exile in Paris, Richard Wright devoted himself almost exclusively to writing haiku. His emotional life was agonizing ...

This time, we're bringing you Haiku Masters from Hokkaido's beautiful Biei. In this special episode, we'll be introducing the best photo haiku work from around the world while taking in the ...

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.

In the 17th Century, haiku master Matsuo Basho wandered across feudal Japan in search of inspiration, writing directly from firsthand experience with the swiftness of a sword slicing a melon in two.

When I became chronically ill in 2001 and began to live a life of relative seclusion, I discovered a kindred spirit: the lay Buddhist priest Kobayashi Issa (1763-1828). Reading his haiku about small ...

True haiku is a celebration of unclutteredness, emptiness, fleetingness, vastness, littleness, nothingness, change. Emptiness finds its way from silence to words, often in parataxis. An example of ...

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 ...