Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Rene Nienaber of Centennial, winner of The Denver Post’s $25 Haiku contest this week, wrote this on the topic of “autumn”: Scarlet and gold trees Cast their ...

A successful haiku could be described as a half-finished poem. Originating in Japan in the 17th century, the haiku uses a combination of sensory language, seasonal references, a sense of contrast and ...

Haiku poems have reflected humans' experiences in nature for hundreds of years, including observations of bugs and other wildlife. Recently, researchers analyzed which insects were mentioned the most ...

3. Students apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and appreciate texts. They draw on their prior experience, their interactions with other readers and writers, their ...

Josep Santaeulàlia, trans. from the Catalan by Lawrence Schimel, illus. by Luciano Lozano. Red Comet, $19.99 (72p) ISBN 978-1-63655-173-9 Santaeulàlia’s expressive haikus and Lozano’s spare ...

Anshika Lal (left) and Caprice Jackson, of Tiny WPA, install the Rain Poetry exhibit at Vernon Park. Some of the haiku, written by elementary students, will be permanently visible. Others will be ...