Library Haiku

February 27, 2013
Splabman

Dear SPLAB Staff,

We are writing to ask that you share this upcoming opportunity with the community through your website and calendar.

Children, teens and adults are invited to celebrate National Poetry Month and enter The Seattle Public Library’s first haiku contest. Write a haiku that celebrates the library in your life and submit it beginning Monday, March 4. Your haiku is due online before 5 p.m. Friday, March 15. Winning entries will appear on the Library website beginning April 1.

For more information, go to www.spl.org/haiku.

Thank you for sharing this with your community.

Sincerely,

Jennifer Cargal

Communications

The Seattle Public Library

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