Release Date:
04/01/2013
The Seattle Public Library announces poetry contest winners
The Seattle Public Library invited children, teens and adults to enter a haiku poetry contest in celebration of National Poetry Month in April. One poem is being featured each day in April on the Library website home page (www.spl.org). Three of the winning poems follow:
Find the library
It's a chamber of secrets,
A wrinkle in time.
Clio V., age 9
School: Orca K-8
Columbia Branch
library book on Rin Tin Tin
dog-eared
bookmark wagging
Tom Greggs
Northeast Branch
Frayed man reads in easy
chair. Nobody's homeless
in a library.
Carol Gordon
Lake City Branch
Contest participants were asked to write a haiku that celebrates the library in their life. The 30 best haiku were chosen from over 400 submitted poems.
To view all of the winning haiku, visit www.spl.org/haiku.
For more information contact:
Andra Addison, communications director
206-386-4103
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