Many of us probably have memories of writing short, clever haikus in school, trying to craft the best verse possible within ...

Still other writings have yet to be translated and understood. The overwhelming majority of these remarkable writings, however, are poems written in Chinese, many of them made all the more impressive ...

Because human affairs are complicated and confusing, poems about them tend to be long.” This pithy haiku by Teiichi Suzuki in Osaka was influenced by Basho and the Chinese poet Chuang Tzu (369BC ...

You must write a haiku poem about the stage of the river that you have just researched. You can watch the video clips again, re-read your research notes and search the Internet for appropriate ...

Shorter forms of poetry like limericks and haiku are not only fun to write, but they also have a long history. When poets don’t have many words, they have to think carefully about their choice ...

She said her poetry today borrows from many traditions, including the Japanese haiku, the 8 th-century Tang dynasty Chinese poet Du Fu and the 13 th-century Sufi mystic Rumi. Citing the wars in ...

Calligraphy, literally "beautiful writing," has been appreciated as an art form in many different cultures throughout the world, but the stature of calligraphy in Chinese culture is unmatched. In ...

Few things in Chinese culture are more widely misunderstood outside of China than the Chinese language. The Chinese write very differently from us and indeed from all other literate societies in today ...

Paul Engle noted that “poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power.” As if by magic, poetry books capture feelings that are often elusive and put into words our deepest pain and ...

Poe’s writing career began in the early 1820s with the release of “Tamerlane and Other Poems,” a collection of poems that included the well-thought-out 403-line poem “Tamerlane,” which ...

Shakespeare reading "Hamlet" to his family, circa 1600. Most people confuse a sonnet and a poem, but they have slight differences. A sonnet is a specific type of poem, typically consisting of 14 ...

25, a day after Chinese stocks had begun the torrid rally that turned a market some foreign observers had called "uninvestable" earlier in the year into one of 2024's hottest. Beijing's latest ...