Our collective experiment in poetry has wrapped up. In one month of poems we had 14 people contribute Haikus spoken, videoed, and/or written to Utterz.com. A total of 42 individual poems that were listened to a total of 463 times at the time of the writing of this blog post. Thanks to everyone who contributed, commented, and listened. I didn’t fulfill my personal goal of doing a Haiku a day in February, but I did do 20 or so which is 20 more than I have written since 5th grade! I am so happy with this. You delighted me different angles with the different take you took on this ancient art form. One person even did a PowerPoint haiku. Some are playful, some dark, some earnest, some satirical.
To experience all the haikus, go to Utterz. Here are a just a few of them:
Shashi Bellamkonda on Valentines Day.
From Jill Golick, screenplay writer.
Making art out of adversity, Bev Sykes with this “flu haiku.”
From James, a 3d grade teacher:
Digital girl Juila Roy:
Jan Mcglaughlin of the Faux Press with this PowerPoint Haiku:
Ann Ohio responds to a challenge in which I asked her to make a haiku using the following words: Happy, Ohio, kitten.
Purple Car with this one:
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6 responses so far ↓
purplecar › Social Media Haikus // Mar 3, 2008 at 12:45 pm
[…] Jonny Goldstein put out a challenge on Utterz for a Haiku-a-Day. I managed only one. You can go to my account, PurpleCar, on Utterz or here to listen, but here is the text: […]
Jill Golick // Mar 3, 2008 at 2:30 pm
I learned about haiku from my grade 4 teacher, Miss Winkler. I haven’t written many since then, so thanks Jonny for the chance.
I love the web, don’t you?
I won the DC City Paper Haiku Contest | jonnygoldstein.com // Apr 10, 2008 at 2:40 pm
[…] It came about as unexpected fringe benefit of organizing the Haiku Project: I was discovered by a Washington DC City Paper journalist who wanted to do an article about DC area haiku-ists. She had me and two other notable DC area haiku poets write haikus about meat, spring, cherry blossoms, Franklin Roosevelt, and haikus. Then our work was judged by David McAleavey, director of Creative Writing at the George Washington University and author of the book, Huge Haiku. […]
You’re going to PodCamp NYC? Me too! Let’s totally hang out. | jonnygoldstein.com // Apr 24, 2008 at 10:08 pm
[…] Another way to connect is to catch me leading a session about fostering community creativity via mobile phones, using the Haiku Project as a case study. You’ll find out how I got a bunch of people from coast to coast to write original haiku poems and record them to the web via their cell phones. We’ll also kick around ideas for other projects that encourage community creativity using mobile phones. […]
Session Notes from PodCampNYC 2.0 | jonnygoldstein.com // Apr 28, 2008 at 3:14 pm
[…] More info about the Haiku Project here. […]
poems about angles // May 11, 2008 at 8:16 pm
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