Poets, don’t you know it?
If our haiku contest whetted your appetite for poetry, you can experience pro prose next week at the April Poetry Relay, Moscow’s celebration of National Poetry Month.
Area poets will read their work from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday in the council chambers inside Moscow City Hall.
The relay will begin with a reading by Moscow Poet Laureate Susan Hodgin, who will then introduce the next poet. The event will continue in a relay style, one poet introduced after another, leading up to the event closer, Robert Wrigley.
Other featured poets include Ron McFarland, Daniel Berkner, Terri Gaffney and Georgia Tiffany. Appetizers, dessert and a no-host bar will be provided by Bloom. The event is free.
Syllable savants unite
We received dozens of entries in our first-ever poetry contest, Can You Haiku?, in which we asked readers to send us a haiku inspired by our enigmatic March 28 cover.
Debbie Allen, a Lewiston city librarian, noted that haikus usually are about nature, and there’s another version, called a lowku, which is about something gross. Many of the entries we received landed in that category.
Several were disqualified for not following the rules of haiku: Five syllables in the first line, seven in the second and five in the third.
Here are some of our favorites, starting with that of our winner, Walter Hesford of Moscow, who won an Inland 360 sticker and two movie tickets. Other published winners will receive an Inland 360 sticker.
— Jennifer K. Bauer, Inland 360 editor
First Place
Three-Sixty hovers,
portending rescue or doom?
Arms outstretched, we plead.
— Walter Hesford, Moscow
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Puffy numbers, look!
Worm-like but oh so feathered
Something good to come?
— Joan Way, Potlatch
The massive worm god
Eager for tasty revenge
Choppers buzz like gnats
— Erik Perryman, Moscow
The mighty black snake
Joins our airplane in the sky
With people confused
— Ryan Rice, Pullman
Airplane in the sky
Excitement is in the air
Three sixty is here!
— Melinda Crawford, Moscow
Coils of writhing hair
Hang strangely over the Snake
Prom chic or rapture?
— Anne McLaughlin, Moscow
Rotor downwash rings
Paint vast lazy 360s
Sky calligraphy
— Jim Fielder, Palouse
Dark cyclonic clouds
Threatening our way of life
What do we do now?
— Mercedes McMurray, Clarkston
Swelling nimbus clouds
Roiling like rivers rising
Wash away what was
— Frances Conklin, Cottonwood
the great sausage blimp
confused all for miles around
for one day each year
— Christine Dopke, Moscow
Their huge signal sent
they wait for 360's team
to bring that section
— Carol Warden, Grangeville
From the horizon
Round knot on top piled high
The man-bun attacks
— David A. Wilson, Genesee
Behold! Three Sixty
clouds the brilliant sky with news
As we seek answers.
— Christina Brando-Subis, Lewiston
Hands wave frantically
Helicopters above
Rescued at last
— Patricia Daulton, Lewiston
From the sea it rose
A toxic plastic monster
What doom have we wrought?
— Randy Hair, Clarkston
