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A whiz with words? Send WaPo your "pie-ku"

Posted Apr 28th 2008 9:00AM by Ellen Slattery
Filed under: Newspapers, America

Do you consider yourself a pizza lover? A specialist of sauce? A connoisseur of cheese?

Can you express your love for pie in poem form?

The Washington Post wants your pie-kus, written in - you guessed it - haiku form (which, for those of you who weren't paying attention in fifth grade, is an un-rhyming poem consisting of three lines: The first is five syllables, the second is seven, and the third is five.

Get your creative juices flowing, because the deadline is April 30. E-mail your poem to food@washpost.com with "PIE-KU" in the subject line, or send it to: Pie-Ku Contest, c/o Joe Yonan, Food Section, The Washington Post, 1150 15th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20071. Make sure you include your full name, address and telephone number.

Good luck, my pizza-loving poets.

A haiku for you

Posted Apr 21st 2008 2:28PM by Alanna Kaufman
Filed under: On the Blogs, America

I love to read Is My Blog Burning? so that I can stay updated on all of the contests circulating around the blogosphere. I'm usually shy about participating (though I did enter a cupcake contest just once), but I think it's great when people create dishes and posts for the sake of the blogging community, and I love to see the results. Anyway, Is My Blog Burning? alerted me today to a contest called Haiku That Blog, in which contestants write a haiku poem about a particular blog and one lucky winner receives a fabulous prize. The blog for the contest is Lunch Bucket Bento, which I'd never seen before, but it looks adorable.

The contest got me thinking, however, about haiku for Slashfood and food blogging in general. I wrote three. My favorite is this one (note: for an English major, I was never very good at writing poetry):

Read it for Breakfast,
Lunch, Dinner, and in between
Slashfood – keeps me fed

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Plum poem table cloth

Posted Mar 6th 2006 12:01PM by Nick Vagnoni
Filed under: On the Blogs

I usually leave the craft blogs to my better half, but poco-cocoa seems to be just as much food blog as craft/home blog. Particularly cool, I thought, was Crystal's tablecloth, embroidered with "This Is Just To Say," by William Carlos Williams. Most of you are probably familiar with the poem, perhaps Williams' most famous, about a couple of plums and an icebox. If not, it's printed in its entirety (all 12 lines) over at poco-cocoa. I've always been fond of WCW's simplicity, and I think it's especially pertinent as it applies to food. Also, I like the idea of keeping this poem around in the kitchen or at the table. It's a cool project, indeed.

[Photo: poco-cocoa]

Spam Haiku

Posted Jan 10th 2006 7:08PM by Nick Vagnoni
Filed under: Pork, Food Oddities

Back in middle school, I think one of the first poems I ever wrote was a rhyming little ditty about Spam. Lucky for you, I have no idea where that little gem went. What I do know is that The Spam-Ku Archive has nearly 20,000 haiku (and other assorted verse, and a book) dedicated to that most beloved meaty little block.

Some are poignant:
Empathize with them
Cut your finger on SPAM top
Pigs must feel that too

Others are just plain weird:
Freezing midwinter
The warmest thing you can wear?
Jacket made of SPAM

My pending entry:
Hurricane supplies
The loneliest can of all
Eat some more tuna.

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