Katerina Canyon

This week in The Canyon Poets Zoom poetry reading, we wrote and shared pantoum poems. Pantoums are poems that are found Malayan literature. A pantoum is made up of four line stanzas where you repeat certain lines in the stanzas that follow. If you were writing one, lines 2 and 4 are repeated in the second stanza, lines 6 and 8 are repeated in the third stanza, and you would continue on until you complete your poem. Here's mine: Muscle Memory I tried to murder my father. I hel

Over the past year, millions of people turned to poetry to make sense of the world. Poetry can be found in nearly every social platform. Haiku itself has a tremendous following on Instagram with hundreds of haiku posts a day. As the world of technology evolves, we tend to desire content that is fast paced and easy to take in. I think this will one day be the case for poetry. There will always be room for the long epic poem, but people will be more attracted to a short poem li