THE LAST CALL OF THE FIRST LAUREATE, Nils Peterson
During the month of January, I’ll be looking for what I call “haiku-ish” things. The poems must have 3 lines and have no more than 17 syllables. The true haiku has certain formal requirements which we are ignoring here. This will be our own casual Santa Clara County form.
Yet try to do interesting things with line lengths and endings. The poems should be all related in some way to our county, public poems rather than personal ones, though that can be a difficult distinction.
In the month of March, we will post them—2 or 3 poems a day—on the laureate website, www.nilspeterson.wordpress.com.
Please submit your poems by email to poet.laureate@ceo.sccgov.org.
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