Poetry News For March 23, 2007
I have a haiku online at the Mainichi Daily News in Tokyo. 
(I didn’t even know. I just surfed there on my periodic haiku meanderings.) Part of my quest to create a poem with the fewest words (7 this time) … speaking of which …
{edit oops it’s 6}
Poetry News:
- Princeton H.S. official resigns over poetry —
- Poet Mahon scoops £40,000 honour —
- Entries Sought for Migraine and Headache Poetry Contest —
- Spencer: Ex-N.J. poet laureate applies for Pa. job —
- Frost Finds Innovation in ‘Wonderful Array’ of Female Voices —
- Mystery of antique safe cracked —
Tricia responds:
Posted: March 23rd, 2007 at 2:54 pm →
The principal story is interesting. In the single creative writing class I ever took in high school, the teacher invited her husband to come to class and read us a “Going Down on My Wife Is Like Eating a Rich Avocado” sex poem. It was awesome, but now I am moved to wonder if she could have been fired for it.
Ivy responds:
Posted: March 23rd, 2007 at 7:51 pm →
Congratulations on the haiku, Jilly! That’s awesome.
Jilly Dybka responds:
Posted: March 24th, 2007 at 9:49 am →
Wow Tricia you had way different hs teachers than I did haha.
Thanks Ivy.
Valerie Loveland responds:
Posted: March 25th, 2007 at 10:55 pm →
I like the haiku!