One expert says haiku is "not fun." He's never been to Tweetspeak. We have a fun new infographic to help you Boost Your Haiku High-Q

Every month, we arrange the way we play poetry around a particular theme. You'll see it in the artful content from our contributing writers, hear it in our inspiring thematic Spotify playlists, put your hands on it in the Monday morning poetry prompts, or experience it in the daily offerings from Every Day Poems. Here are our favorites from 2012.

Haiku chains, Haiku Brew, haiku reflections on a community street. Lyla Willingham Lindquist has a haiku-ridden edition of our Top Ten Poetic Picks.

Haiku forbids excess. The poet has 17 syllables (or fewer) in which to say, not the un-sayable, but what can be said. There is no room for explanation, only impression. Angela O'Donnell on the way haiku gives the fleet glimpse instead of exposition, a quick picture in place of a thousand words.

The best known haiku attribute -- the 17-syllable count and 5-7-5 rhythm -- turns out to be its least valid attribute. Christopher Patchel explores Why Haiku.

There's no single right way, but for those of us who scratch words, poetry--even haiku--can provide an outlet for working through our collective grief.

Random acts of poetry, communing with nature is not an excuse to get out of the office, going to class with Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath. It's all in This Week's Top Ten Poetic Picks with Seth Haines.

Chris Yokel considers the haiku as a call out of the blur of modern life, and out of shallow thinking and living to a deep place in this reprint from The Curator.

Holiday favorite "A Christmas Story" provides a backdrop for this week's holiday haiku poetry prompt with Seth Haines. Careful. You'll shoot your eye out.

He knows if you've been bad or haiku, so be haiku for goodness sake. Seth Haines introduces our December poetry theme, and a brand new holiday playlist.

Cowboy Christmas poetry, book sculptures from a mystery artists, why business leaders need to pay poetry its due. Seth Haines has this week's Top Ten Poetic Picks.