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Recent Examples of haiku
Best of all are terrace bathtubs crafted from rocks or hinoki cypress wood, filled with hot spring onsen water—plus haiku-inspiring valley views.
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Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Feb. 2026
Woodland features around 25,000 titles of poetry, small press literature, handmade works and the largest collection of haiku in North America.
—Hannah Kirby, jsonline.com, 28 Jan. 2026
Whether from the literary rules of a haiku or the development of ferns, constraint can be a generator of form.
—Jacob S. Suissa, The Conversation, 25 Nov. 2025
This haiku by Japanese poet Bashō perfectly sums up the experience of first seeing Matsushima Bay: abject awe.
—Zoe Baillargeon, Travel + Leisure, 8 Aug. 2025
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Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Feb. 2026
Woodland features around 25,000 titles of poetry, small press literature, handmade works and the largest collection of haiku in North America.
—Hannah Kirby, jsonline.com, 28 Jan. 2026
Whether from the literary rules of a haiku or the development of ferns, constraint can be a generator of form.
—Jacob S. Suissa, The Conversation, 25 Nov. 2025
This haiku by Japanese poet Bashō perfectly sums up the experience of first seeing Matsushima Bay: abject awe.
—Zoe Baillargeon, Travel + Leisure, 8 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for haiku
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Each photo is combined with a tanka (a five-line, 31-syllable poem) written through the lens of a 10-year-old girl encountering the Jews for the first time, composed by poet Hiroko Yamagata.—
Josh Hasten,
Sun Sentinel,
21 Sep. 2022
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Her third and most critically acclaimed film, Forever a Woman (1955), is a tender, yearning portrait of a tanka poet with breast cancer and one of the first films anywhere to show a mastectomy.—
Lisa Wong Macabasco,
Vogue,
18 Mar. 2022
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The construction is the same -- three lines, 17 syllables, with five syllables in the first line, seven syllables in the second line and five syllables on the third line -- but the tone and subject matter of a senryu is different.—
Mary Colurso | [email protected],
al,
19 Nov. 2020
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The event is open to anyone interested in learning about the modern haiku, senryu and haibun types of poetry, focusing on contemporary free verse forms, not the familiar five-seven-five-syllable structure.—
Carole Goldberg,
courant.com,
7 Aug. 2019
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In his gorgeous and arresting debut, Nick Martino hurtles through a variety of forms—from sonnets to visual poems to works of visual art—to vividly portray and reflect on a teenager’s world during and after the speaker’s parents’ divorce and his father’s incarceration.—
Craig Morgan Teicher,
Literary Hub,
1 June 2026
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My expertise, for example, is in the African American sonnet tradition.—
Jay Caspian Kang,
New Yorker,
12 May 2026
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With their laid-back, mop-haired rocker dad and poetry professor turned ayurvedic healer mom, 16-year-old Awilda and 13-year-old Delphine have surely always known the importance of staying true to oneself.—
Marah Eakin,
Vulture,
4 June 2026
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People expect a more comprehensive, even exciting experience, with things like live music, poetry readings and even circus acts.—
John Metcalfe,
Mercury News,
4 June 2026
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He was also known for his haikus and limericks, including some written to summarize ethics.—
Elliott Wenzler,
Denver Post,
2 Apr. 2026
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These can then be assembled to capture the ladder of logical complexity: patterns of patterns, such as limericks or subject-verb agreement.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
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By greatly expanding the dimensions of his images, with their muted palettes, tight cropping, found symmetries, and laconic wit, had the maestro of the photographic epigram betrayed his subtractive aesthetic?—
James Quandt,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
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Johnson is the author of the epigrams, but Boswell is very much the co-author.—
David Frum,
The Atlantic,
27 May 2026
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Tom Sturridge, Rebecca Hall, Ebon Moss-Bachrach and newcomer Luther Ford co-star in this elegy defiantly tethered to life.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
22 May 2026
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To say an elegy by heart/to zero our dying before birth.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
1 Apr. 2026
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Over the course of Gregory Orr’s long career, his poems have become increasingly incantatory, more and more like chants or psalms, repeating, reformulating, reaching for the edges of the same rich metaphors.—
Craig Morgan Teicher,
Literary Hub,
1 June 2026
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The epitome of that tradition is Choral Evensong, an evening service of hymns, psalms and prayers laid out by Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, the first Protestant archbishop of the Church of England, in 1549.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
5 Apr. 2026
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