How do you see poetry? Do you still read any of them? Poetry may seem to be a dated form of communication, but it’s still a effective tool to convey an emotional message. Indeed it is evolving with the world but not left behind. We see a new wave of communication that are using poetry in a original way.

New York Times launched the Times Haiku tumblr to celebrate the National Poetry month in April. Haiku is a poem format originated from Japan, which consists of three lines — five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, and five in the third. Based on the algorithms built by their senior software architect Jacob Harris, the software would scan periodically for new articles and breaks down the haiku-friendly sentences by using an electronic dictionary containing syllable counts. The intriguing part is the way it is being presented. Not as text, but as image in image-based tumblr. ”Because we want the poems to retain their visual integrity, even when people share them across social networks, we post them as images instead of text,” Jacob said. It’s a project that explores the new relationship of words, visuals and computational technology.