A few weeks ago, during the peak of a heat wave, I took my kids to the San Diego Zoo’s Safari Park. Despite the weather, we had a great time, and I decided to capture one of the moments in a haibun.

I remember that day in Hyderabad when I was introduced to my first book of haibun. I began reading it to kill time before a literary event, but just couldn’t put the book down. I am not an enthralled ...

Japanese poet Matsuo Bash-o usually wrote haiku. But sometimes he experimented with haibun, a form that combines observational prose blocks with haiku’s three lines. “Cooling off by the river at Shijo ...

Our new columnist Jan Snela thinks back on his trip to Japan a few months ago, interweaving recollections with reflections on the books he lugged around – or didn’t. The two of them looked like they ...