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Is Twitter the Newest Form of Literature?
Everyone is familiar with Twitter, the uber-popular micro-blogging site, which limits the user to 140 characters. The tweet is perfect for sharing your favorite links and updating the world about your life, but it might also be the...
Curated Video
How to Use ChatGPT and Generative AI for Passive Income - Use ChatGPT to Write Poetry for Content
Explore how to use ChatGPT to create original poetry for your website or social media accounts. This video will show you how to use AI to generate rhymes and verses that resonate with your target audience. This clip is from the chapter...
Curated Video
Haiku Poetry
Haiku Poetry reviews the elements of a haiku and explains how to compose one.
Oxford Comma
America Teaches Haiku WRONG
While the United States of America's education system is vast and varied, there is little doubt that, as a whole, it teaches some half truths. Considering how little non-western literature American students read, these misconceptions can...
National Parks Service
Acadia National Park - Haiku Reading by Acadia Writer-in-Residence Brad Bennett
Acadia Writer-in-Residence Brad Bennett led a haiku writing workshop and reading at Chapter Two in Corea, Maine on Aug 24, 2021. This nine-minute video excerpt was drawn from a live stream event broadcast to hundreds of viewers over...
Food Farmer Earth
Michael Pollan Shares His Skepticism of Nutrition Science
From the archives: This video is from an interview and 2008 talk that Michael Pollan gave at the Bagdad Theatre in Portland, Oregon. Pollan explains the history of modern nutrition and how the nutrition experts got it wrong. What he says...
Schooling Online
English Essentials – Perfecting Poetry – Purpose, Forms and Structure of Poetry (Stage 4, Years/Grades 7-8)
What makes poetry so special? Watch our first lesson on Perfecting Poetry to find out.
We’ll introduce some ‘big picture’ techniques relating to poetic form and structure. You’ll learn all about different types of stanzas, rhyme schemes...
Advocate of Wordz
HAIKU - Poetry Defined
Strength is normally measured in density. From atomic energy to the integrity of metals to a boxer's punch. So it is natural to view the HAIKU as the epitome of what compact power looks like in the literary world.
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Pbs: Japanese Culture: Japanese Aesthetics
Video provides a brief overview of Japanese aesthetics and explains the major differences between Western and Japanese aesthetics.