On Sunday, May 4, almost 100 poets and poetry lovers gathered together at Mukai Farm & Garden to hear haiku and celebrate ...

SPRINGFIELD — Martin Espada’s new poetry collection, “The Jailbreak of Sparrows,” captures people, politics, and scenes and moments from Puerto Rico. Espada, a University of Massachusetts ...

A creature once revered in ancient Chinese folklore and immortalized in poetry for its playful spirit and perpetual smile is now swimming against extinction. The Yangtze finless porpoise—Asia ...

Through its annual Earth Day running event, “Lakbay Kalikasan Earth Day Fun Run,” Manila Water, in collaboration with Manila Water Foundation (MWF), showcased the beauty of Metro Manila’s ...

In writer and poet Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay’s 2010 poem “Misfit,” the speaker of the poem notes that other people often ostracize him for his differences. But he doesn’t care ...

A Haiku contest is a literary competition where participants submit haiku poems, a traditional Japanese form of poetry. Haiku are known for their simplicity, nature themes, and specific structure.

She is the editor, most recently, of the anthology “Super Gay Poems: LGBTQIA+ Poetry After Stonewall.” Books of lyric poems work like museums: We enter, we wander, we investigate, we marvel at ...

Environmentalists have filed a petition for a Writ of Kalikasan on Monday, April 21, 2025, asking the Supreme Court to stop the construction of the Samal Island-Davao City Connector (SIDC) Project. In ...

The writ of kalikasan is a legal remedy that protects the rights of Filipinos to a balanced and healthful ecology. Drilling operations, sampling activities, construction of craneways and a port ...

The word haiku means the beginning. The haiku poets say they only begin, never end, and the reader has to complete it. If a poem ends with the poet, the reader remains mere audience not an actor.

Oh, the weather is warming up, the birds are chirping, and downtown is blossoming with haikus. No, a haiku isn’t something you can eat — it’s a poem of 17 syllables in three lines of five, seven, and ...