When you write a haiku, you are sharing an event or an object that has touched you. Where did haiku come from? Originally, there was a longer poem called a renga or linked poem. The beginning of that ...

Readings include selections from the first eight imperial poetry anthologies (hachidaishu), famous renga sequences (Minase Sangin Hyakuin, for example), and the haiku of Basho. Texts and selections ...