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TINYWORDS.COM ANNOUNCES RESULTS OF NATIONAL POETRY MONTH CONTEST

From hundreds of entries, five lucky winners from around the world receive free haiku books

SAN MATEO, CA., May 14, 2001 --

Winners of the tinywords.com National Poetry Month contest:

  • April 8: Cynthia Reynolds of Greensburg, Kentucky
  • April 15: Liz D of San Diego, California
  • April 23: Paul T Conneally of Loughborough, U.K.
  • April 30: Caron Reid of Sydney, Australia
  • May 7: w ing of Cambridge, Massachusetts

    Each of these lucky folks received a copy of OVER THE WAVE: THE SELECTED HAIKU OF RITSUO OKADA, a brand-new paperback with some 50+ haiku by Japanese poet Ritsuo Okada, with Japanese text, romaji, and translations by Tadashi Kondo and William J. Higginson.

    Site visitors entered the contest by recommending tinywords.com web pages to their friends and colleagues, using links placed throughout the tinywords web site. The most popular haiku recommended by contest entrants:

    19 april 2001
    5 april 2001
    7 march 2001

    Many thanks and much good will to William J. Higginson and From Here Press for their generous support of tinywords.com's first contest.

    A few useless statistics about the contest:

    contest dates: 4/1/2001 - 5/6/2001
    total entries: 242
    winners: 5
    odds of winning: 2.07%

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