Since 1998 The Bridges Organization has been offering conferences that publicize and celebrate links connecting mathematics and the arts. Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the 2020 conference was virtual -- but papers submitted to the conference are available online here.
One of the 2020 titles that has especially interested me is "Poetry in the Lesson of Mathematics" by Natalija Budinski and Zsolt Lavicza, available at this link. The article describes a case study on how poetry can be used as a teaching tool in math classes -- helping students to understand complex mathematical concepts by writing about them using guidelines from poetry.
Links to additional Bridges articles by Budinski and by Lavicza are available via SEARCH here in the Bridges Archives. And some of my earlier suggestions about using poetry in math classes are found in this posting.
In closing, a stanza from a long-ago poem of mine, "A Taste of Mathematics":
She said, "A hot pepper
is like mathematics--
with strong flavor
that takes over
whatever
it enters.
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