PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — With the nice weather, it may be time to visit the Columbia River Gorge and celebrate this magnificent outdoor location with a haiku. Friends of the Columbia Gorge have ...

Can you write a haiku about spring? Sure you can! Here are the details, which are simple indeed. The deadline is Monday to share your haiku and a photo at news@sosalem.com.

Here are the details on how to write a spring haiku. You can share your haiku (and a photo!) at news@swo-co.com. The deadline is Monday, and spring's not far behind.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Columbia Gorge. A haiku challenge contest. You could be featured. Friends of the Columbia Gorge is celebrating National Poetry Month with a Spring Gorge Haiku Challenge. The ...

Michael S. Williamson / The Washington Post John Kelly’s front yard? No, Brookside Gardens in Wheaton, Md., last spring. Tulips are starting to push up all over, a reminder to enter John’s annual ...

*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 ...

Two weeks ago today, we announced our 2nd Annual "Hooray for Spring!" Haiku Contest. And 222 of you responded. Much like last year's entries, this year's batch is a mixed bag. Some are great, some ...

OK, it's taken a bit longer than expected -- sorry to keep you hanging -- but we finally have a winner in our vaunted Spring Haiku Contest. Some 148 of you budding ...

HAIKU: A POET'S GUIDE by Lee Gurga, Illinois: Modern Haiku Press, 2003, 170 pp., $20 (paper). HAIKU: The Poetic Key to Japan, selected & introduced by Mutsuo Takahashi, photographs by Hakudo Inoue, ...