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Evoke a season, weather, or change in the natural world. You don’t have to write “season.” Put us inside one.

Something new for Worku: Theme of the Week

For the next few weeks, we’re going to try a little experiment …

The AI scoring rubric is not meant to declare which poem is “best.” It is a way to look at each Worku from several angles and ask a simple question: how well did the poem turn a set of required words into an actual haiku? Each poem is scored out…

As worku approaches its first anniversary (23 September 2026!), I’ve begun going back through every poem from the past year, month by month. I’m looking at more than statistics. I want to understand how the form has developed, which poems and experiments have helped define it, how individual worki have…

One Puzzle, Many Poems: Introducing Freestyle Worku