{"id":4407,"date":"2006-02-28T14:54:15","date_gmt":"2006-02-28T18:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2006\/02\/28\/the-herons-nest-haiku-mardi-g"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:54:07","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:54:07","slug":"the-herons-nest-haiku-mardi-gras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2006\/02\/28\/the-herons-nest-haiku-mardi-gras\/","title":{"rendered":"the heron’s nest haiku mardi gras"},"content":{"rendered":"

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with a parade of some of the best haiku published in 2005.  Yesterday, <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Feb. 27, 2006, The Heron’s Nest<\/EM><\/FONT><\/A> made that easy — it announced the <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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winners of its Readers’ Choice Awards Vol. VII<\/A>  (2005).  There are two <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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categories, Best Poem and Most Popular Poet.  All those participating <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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in the poll agreed to read all of the poems published at THN<\/EM> in 2005.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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                                                                                               \"MardiGrasG\"<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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\"tiny  We at f\/k\/a are celebrating extra hard, as four of our <\/FONT>Honored Guest<\/FONT><\/A> <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Poets were among the six winners — with Carolyn Hall topping both<\/EM> <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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categories.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Here are the contest results:<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“THNLogoG”  <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Best Poem Vol. VII (2005)<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/EM><\/DIV>
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GRAND PRIZE<\/STRONG> (120 points)

so suddenly winter
baby teeth at the bottom
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            — Carolyn Hall  <\/FONT>Commentary<\/FONT><\/A><\/DIV>
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FIRST<\/STRONG> RUNNER-UP (94 points)<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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– Click to see <\/FONT>Rick Tarquinio<\/FONT><\/A>‘s haiku<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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SECOND<\/STRONG> RUNNER-UP (75 points)

unemployed
the uneven edge
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THIRD<\/STRONG> RUNNER-UP (58 points)<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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– click to see David Lindsey<\/FONT><\/A>‘s <\/FONT>haiku<\/FONT><\/FONT>
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Popular Poets Vol. VII (2005)  “THNLogoF”<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/EM><\/DIV>
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GRAND PRIZE

<\/FONT>Carolyn Hall<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/A> (5 of 7 poems received votes – total = 163 points)<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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– click to see each of Carolyn’s Vol. VII poems: <\/FONT>0701 EC#1<\/FONT><\/A>,  <\/FONT>0701 5#8<\/FONT><\/A>,  <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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0702 2#5<\/FONT><\/A>,  <\/FONT>0703 7#8<\/FONT><\/A>,  <\/FONT>0703 9#9<\/FONT><\/A>,  <\/FONT>0704 2#8<\/FONT><\/A>,  <\/FONT>0704 3#2<\/FONT><\/A> <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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FIRST<\/STRONG> RUNNER-UP<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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paul m<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/A>. (6 of 7 poems received votes – total = 141 points)<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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– click to see each of paul’s Vol. VII poems <\/FONT>0701 1#10<\/FONT><\/A>,  <\/FONT>0701 7#5<\/FONT><\/A>,  <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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0702 3#4<\/FONT><\/A>,  <\/FONT>0702 7#6<\/FONT><\/A>,  <\/FONT>0703 EC#1<\/FONT><\/A>,  <\/FONT>0703 8#5<\/FONT><\/A>,  <\/FONT>0704 5#5<\/FONT><\/A> <\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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SECOND<\/STRONG> RUNNER-UP (a tie)<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Rick Tarquinio<\/EM> (4 of 6 poems received votes – total = 135 points)<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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-click to see each of RIck’s Vol. VII poems: <\/FONT>0701 9#9<\/FONT><\/A>,  <\/FONT>0702 EC#1<\/FONT><\/A>,  <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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0702 3#9<\/FONT><\/A>, <\/FONT>0703 6#1<\/FONT><\/A>,  <\/FONT>0704 10#3<\/FONT><\/A>,  <\/FONT>0704 12#8<\/FONT><\/A>

John Stevenson<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/A> (8 of 8 poems received votes – total = 135 points)<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/DIV>
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– click to see each of John’s Vol. VII poems: <\/FONT>0701 11#4<\/FONT><\/A>,  <\/FONT>0701 7#1<\/FONT><\/A>,  <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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0702 10#4<\/FONT><\/A>,  <\/FONT>0702 8#2<\/FONT><\/A>,  <\/FONT>0703 1#8<\/FONT><\/A>,  <\/FONT>0703 10#6<\/FONT><\/A>,  <\/FONT>0704 EC#3<\/FONT><\/A>,  <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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0704 10#10<\/FONT><\/A>
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THIRD<\/STRONG> RUNNER-UP<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Yu Chang<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/A>  (4 of 4 poems received votes – total = 93 points) <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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– click to see each of Yu’s Vol. VII poems: <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>0703 7#1<\/FONT><\/A>,  <\/FONT>0703 7#7<\/FONT><\/A>,  <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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0704 12#3<\/FONT><\/A>,  <\/FONT>0704 7#3<\/FONT><\/A>.  (Being an engineer and a stickler for <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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precision, I bet the ever-humble Prof. Yu would <\/FONT>point out that<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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a tie for Second makes him the Fourth Run<\/FONT>ner-Up.)<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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\"MGstuff\"  Celebrate Mardi Gras with a pair of poems from each of f\/k\/a<\/EM>‘s<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Honored-Guest winners from Vol. VII of the Heron’s Nest<\/EM>:<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Arlington
the tulips
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rain-streaked windows
    how to paint
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Carolyn Hall<\/FONT><\/A> <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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pull of the moon
I am not myself
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fallen sycamore —
the chess players move
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yu chang<\/FONT><\/A> <\/FONT><\/DIV><\/DIV>
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daffodil shoots–<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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all these years<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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as an accountant<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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drifting seed fluff . . . <\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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the rented horse <\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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knows an hour’s worth<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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paul m<\/FONT><\/A><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN>
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evening light
a loaf of bread
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fresh snow
for the hands,
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John Stevenson<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A> <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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\"MardiGrasN\"  There’s one big difference between The Heron’s Nest<\/EM> <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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Mardi Gras celebration and traditional ones: THN<\/A><\/EM> will still be feasting <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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on Ash Wednesday — with its first edition of 2006 (Vol. VIII). Check <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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will be published, containing all of the poems that <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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appeared online in 2005, plus the Reader’s Choice<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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Awards result.  It’s only $15.  Details here<\/A>, in the left-<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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hand margin.<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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p.s.<\/STRONG><\/EM> dagosan<\/A><\/EM> didn’t win any THN<\/EM> awards this year, but still felt like a <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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winner a year ago, when this poem <\/FONT>appeared in<\/FONT><\/A> Vol. VII: 1 — his <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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very first haiku in a haiku journal:<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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alone —
hugging
warm laundry<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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      david giacalone<\/EM><\/FONT><\/A><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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David Lanoue planned to go all out this year celebrating Mardi <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Gras post-Katrina.  We hope the good professor has a great <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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time and brings something more than a headache to his <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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creative writing class on March 1. <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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somebody’s little sister<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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     Bourbon Street<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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        stripper<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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the city recovers
restaurant
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the city Care forgot
is drowning, Care
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David G. Lanoue<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/A><\/DIV><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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If you love to read or write haiku, Mardi Gras might be best celebrated with a parade of some of the best haiku published in 2005.  Yesterday, Feb. 27, 2006, The Heron’s Nest made that easy — it announced the winners of its Readers’ Choice Awards Vol. VII  (2005).  There are two categories, Best Poem […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-195","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12756,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4407\/revisions\/12756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}