Golden Triangle’s Haiku Signs Have Returned Like Migrant Birds in Spring
A sure sign of spring has poked out of tree boxes in downtown DC: Signs bearing winning entries in tHere’s the first-place winner, by Rich Schilling:spoke with Abigail Friedman, who’s judged the contest since it began in 2014 and who worked with three other judges, all of whom boast. Friedman, a former diplomat, learned to write haiku in Japan with the poet Momoko Kuroda, who died just last week.
People tend to focus on the winners, Friedman says, but what she likes best about this contest “is how many haiku we end up putting on the signs, in the tree boxes, because it’s really special for people to know their haiku was posted somewhere.” The point, she says, is “to inspire people to write haiku, or to continue writing haiku.”
always respect the reader: “It’s somehow figuring out where that sweet spot is where you are not explaining too much and not being so cryptic that the reader can’t access it.”
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