*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. The explicit logo from National Haiku Writing Month. There’s always a certain time-lapse before literary works of note make their ...

It's April 1, a day of celebrations - April Fools' Day, Easter Sunday and the first day of Poetry Month. Twitter is now officially open to your submissions to hashtag #nprpoetry. Every year, we get ...

Situated in Portsmouth's historic Abraham Shaw House facing State Street, Single Island Press has opened its doors and a fresh guest book. Open since January, the small cluster of rooms, connected by ...

If you ever had a unit on haiku in English class, the brunt of your effort reading and composing haiku was probably spent counting out the syllables: five-seven-five across three lines. Local writer ...

John J. Dunphy has written a terrific, easy-to-understand primer on what makes a haiku. At least it's fairly easy to understand..... What do you think? Imagine English-language haiku, one of the most ...