There also should be a "cutting word," or a point in which the idea in the poem turns sharply in another direction. The good news is that when it comes to the Haiku Death Match, the third rapid ...

Throughout his career, he wrote poetry and was especially fond of the haiku ... We'll be discussing his Art of Oncology article, 'A Life and a Death in Haiku'. At the time of this recording, our guest ...

Eschewing the more common approach of bringing together famous haiku poems, this collection ranges ... But it is Ariwara no Narihira's musing on impending death that is most startling.

nearly three years after Kenyon’s death, he explained: “My life has totally changed, and it’s as if with the beard I’ve acknowledged this change.” Hall’s 2000 poem “Distressed Haiku ...

TOKYO — Shuntaro Tanikawa, who pioneered modern Japanese poetry, poignant but conversational in its divergence from haiku and other ... said he wasn’t afraid of death, implying he perhaps ...