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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A promotion for Singapore's National Library Board uses the Japanese poetic form of haiku to draw in potential readers as they visit Muji stores. A wall display now up at two Muji locations in ...