Young poets, we have heard you. We discontinued Kids­Post’s annual poetry contest four years ago, and yet your hope springs eternal. (Yes, those last words were from a poem.) What we mean is ...

Nursery rhymes give many kids their first taste of poetry, a fact that Fox and Horacek ... WHOO-KU HAIKU: A GREAT HORNED OWL STORY Written by Maria Gianferrari. Illustrated by Jonathan Voss.

More than 210,000 haiku from 22 countries and in 16 languages were submitted by children aged 15 and under to a recent international competition organized by the JAL Foundation.

Dozens of Haiku families and friends attended a kids fair and community exchange Saturday morning at Haiku Elementary School. Hosted by the North Shore Church and Maui Food Bank, the free event ...

Haiku is not normally the form of writing Jonathan, 44, does — he’s a lawyer at HUD — but lately he’s been trying the form. “I’ve been getting into it more recently,” he said.