Linda Wingerter was very familiar with the two-lane stretch of highway in Ulysses, New York. For a time, she and her husband traveled it most Sundays to visit friends. Those trips stopped in early ...

Shelves for rice are seen almost empty at a supermarket in Tokyo's Nerima Ward due to shortages of the staple, on Aug. 31, 2024. (Mainichi/Yuki Miyatake) TOKYO -- The Dai-Ichi Life Insurance Co. on ...

This contest is inspired by WelchM (Michael Dylan Welch), a poet and haiku scholar whom your word-game hosts met in the Writers' Club on AOL. He is the editor of Woodnotes, a quarterly haiku and ...

Each spring, Japan is consumed by a contest for style of poetry called Senryu. The poems are just three spare lines about the trials and tribulations of daily life. April is National Poetry Month here ...

Like copywriters, haiku poets know how to pack a punch with a few words. Marc Awodey, Burlington artist/poet and art critic for Seven Days, has considerable cred where this Japanese form is concerned: ...

Working alongside McCann Erickson Japan, the French cosmetics firm has launched a contest endorsed by ‘new half’ Haruna inviting members of the public to compose and submit Senryu poems. Senryu is a ...

April is National Poetry Month here in the United States. But in Japan, poetry is also big this time of year when a popular poetry contest sweeps the country. It offers modest prizes and absolutely no ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the summer of 2020, an anonymous artist who goes by the name of Roadside Senryu started installing road signs inscribed with ...