EDITOR’S NOTE: Tess Taylor is the author of five collections of poetry, including “Work & Days” and “Rift Zone.” She is the editor of the anthology “Leaning Toward Light: Poems for Gardens & the Hands ...

English performance poet John Cooper Clarke once said of the haiku, “To express oneself/in seventeen syllables/is very diffic.” Not just 17 random syllables, either: Under haiku law, two lines of five ...

Strategists should give poetry a try in 2025. Shook's Gemma Moroney rhymes off the reasons why. “An insight’s like a joke.” To laugh at a joke is saying, “I recognize myself in that.” Both quotes I’ve ...

(CNN) — For me, writing a haiku a day began as a practice on my birthday, October, 2022. It was a hard fall. We’d all made progress digging out of the most difficult pandemic days, but my life as I’d ...