Haiku contests can be a fun way to challenge yourself when writing haiku. There are several haiku contests with upcoming deadlines specifically for teens or with categories for teens. I found most of these on the New Zealand Poetry Society's…
One of the most confusing things when you are new to haiku is discovering that what you may have learned in school - haiku is a short poem from Japan written in 3 lines with 17 syllables - is not…
You’ve written the perfect poem! Now is the time to dash it off to an editor, right? Hold on! Here are ten tips to help you edit your own haiku to make them stronger. This first tip is the hardest.…
“The shape of haiku is in the blank spaces.” — Ellen Compton, author of Gathering Dusk For such a small poem, you would expect there to be a simple definition for English-language haiku. Unfortunately, there isn’t one. The Haiku…