April is National Poetry Month and today’s Classroom Extra page wants to bring out the poet in you. Read on to learn how to write one of the world’s simplest and oldest forms of poetry – haiku. Haiku ...

Special to the SentinelThe poet Robert Haas tells us haiku is the art of paying attention to the preciousness and particularity of every moment of existence. Indeed! And yet, in classrooms all across ...

On Monday, Microsoft will officially announce the launch a contest on Twitter that asks users to write a haiku (traditional five-seven-five syllable haiku format is encouraged, but not required) that ...

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 ...