The latest craze in poetry is neither limerick, nor haiku. It’s Fibs! Gregory K. Pincus of the literary blog, GottaBook invited his readers to try their hand at using the Fibonacci sequence of numbers (0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, …) to dictate the number of syllables per line of poetry. The formula for the sequence of Fibonacci numbers (featured above) produces the next number in the sequence by adding the two previous Fibonacci numbers to each other.

Pincus’ first Fib is as follows:

One
Small,
Precise,
Poetic,
Spiraling mixture:
Math plus poetry yields the Fib.

Try your hand at Fibs or read more about them in the New York Times.

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