Welcome to First Edition’s inaugural letter. We’ve been busy this week writing a bunch of HTML generation code, wiring up another inline editor, creating new schemas, all so we could send you a lovely collection of haikus to close out the week.

First up we have Jamie:

Creative Commons
People sharing ideas
All their words, our stage

ICYMI: We launched Creative Commons this week! \o/ And got some love from The Verge, quoting “Jamie Talbot of Medium.” Huge props to everyone involved in this effort.

Did you know Anton is quite the poet?

new letters come in
old letters archived or deleted
life is similar

Kyle’s getting deep on us this week.

How we grieve alone
Tells us something about who
We are together

jk, he used the Times haiku generator to respond to my request for serendipitous poetry.

Katie reflects on the first week of her plan to read more:

week of no tv
no phone at night either
i read and wrote things

Crickets from Jean. Jean: *crickets*

Well, that’s a wrap for this week. If you’d like to contribute a haiku, click here to view this letter in your browser and you can respond there.

Let us know what you think at kt@medium.com.