*Objection to the above sample: “No matter what you were taught in 11th grade English, the poems [haiku] do not have to be three lines of five-syllable, seven-syllable, five-syllable form. There’s a ...

A sure sign of spring has poked out of tree boxes in downtown DC: signs bearing winning entries in the Golden Triangle Business Improvement District’s annual haiku contest. Here’s the first-place ...

Even without a calendar, you know when spring has arrived. You can feel it in the air. And Vicki Elsbernd’s poem about something recently in the air — and in the news — tickled me enough to choose it ...

Poet laureate produces 10 poems, haiku and a musical EP, working with National Trust as it renews its blossom campaign He imagines blossom as fancy dress, as an artist or a magician lighting up ...