Tag Archives: haiku

20 World Leaders in 17 Syllables

September 17, 2009 – 10:27 am

Got a yen for poetry?
The Wall Street Journal reports on a haiku contest sponsored by a Pittsburgh nonprofit offering people the chance to opine on the upcoming G20 meeting in the city. The winning entry (which isn’t all that good in my opinion) will be displayed on a theater marquee near the event site.
The haiku [...]

By Ed Walsh (WHWG) | Posted in General | Also tagged , , , | Comments

Economy of Words

May 29, 2009 – 6:06 pm

I heard a story this morning on NPR in which listeners had been invited to submit recession-inspired haikus.  Some were heartbreaking; others darkly hilarious.
All in seventeen syllables.
It got me thinking about the economy of words — and how the best speechwriters make every sentence as meaningful and muscular as possible, given the limited amount of [...]

By Vinca LaFleur (WWW) | Posted in General | Also tagged | Comments