Poetry

BY MICHAEL DOM THERE IS AN ANCIENT Japanese tradition of haiku written as collective verses by several different poets, which is called haikai no renga (usually 100 pieces in length). If it is considered appropriate perhaps we could attempt to...  

A group of nine gathers around a long yellow table at the Red House Cafe. Seated at the head of the table are Jim Emmons and his wife, Wendy Kaplan, a poet. A new packet of pens rests next to poetry books. The Love Haiku Workshop began Saturday ...  

Business Monday is looking for haiku with an economic them. Are you impacted or concerned about unemployment, low housing prices, too many foreclosures, Europe on the brink, pay cuts and layoffs. Are you still fed up or do you see better days around the corner? Please feel free to riff on our current economic conditions but make sure you keep it to 17 syllables and wrestle it into three unrhymed lines in the 5-7-5 format. Haiku should also...  

CHARLOTTE — The Charlotte Writers’ Club is again sponsoring its prestigious Deane Ritch Lomax Poetry Prize. Poets from North Carolina and South Carolina are encouraged to submit traditional and non-traditional styles (no haiku poems). First-place ...  

February is NaHaiWriMo: National Haiku Writing Month. I've been posting a daily haiku on Twitter and Facebook. These are my tweets from the first week.My February 5 haiku takes its cue from "Bird life badly hit by nuclear fallout in Japan" (David McNeill, Irish Times, Feb. 3). Its line "a cuckoo cries" is taken from Basho's haiku 1a, here. Elissa Malcohn's Deviations and Other JourneysPromote Your Page Too Vol. 1, Deviations: Covenant...