TOKYO -- Public broadcaster NHK's AI-based announcer "News no Yomiko" will try her hand -- or algorithms -- at composing senryu poetry based on current events, it was announced on March 12. Yomiko ...

Here is a wonderful way to begin the celebration with Mother’s Day messages from Tinian in three languages. These haiku/senryu are from a series of poetry workshops I conducted in the 6th grade ...

FUKUOKA -- A Japanese toilet manufacturer has awarded the grand prize in its toilet-related senryu poetry contest to an insightful work depicting a once dependent child growing up. Senryu is a ...

TOKYO -- The Dai-Ichi Life Insurance Co. on Jan. 30 announced the top 100 poems from its "Saratto Ikku!" senryu contest, with ...

This contest is inspired by WelchM (Michael Dylan Welch), a poet and haiku scholar whom your word-game hosts met in the Writers' Club on AOL. He is the editor of Woodnotes, a quarterly haiku and ...

Conventional wisdom has it that the Japanese don't much go in for satire. But today's announcement of this year's winners in the salaryman senryu poetry contest suggests they have a perfectly ...