April is National Poetry Month and today’s Classroom Extra page wants to bring out the poet in you. Read on to learn how to write one of the world’s simplest and oldest forms of poetry – haiku. Haiku ...

Special to the SentinelThe poet Robert Haas tells us haiku is the art of paying attention to the preciousness and particularity of every moment of existence. Indeed! And yet, in classrooms all across ...

WESTFIELD — Everett Decker can be a man of few words, but he is a man of many poems. A proficient writer of haiku, a Japanese brief form of poetry, he created 1,789 haiku-influenced poems based on ...

On Monday, Microsoft will officially announce the launch a contest on Twitter that asks users to write a haiku (traditional five-seven-five syllable haiku format is encouraged, but not required) that ...

Learn how to capture the delicate balance between human-built cities and the natural world. How do cities impact nature? In this video, Jeff Kass introduces the concept of urban sprawl and teaches us ...

Up the barley rows, stitching, stitching them together, a butterfly goes. -Sora (1648-1710) In the U.S., poetry reading is left mostly to poets -and there are not many poets around. Magazines devoted ...