| Article: | You Haiku 2009 - The winners About 300 poems were submitted for the 2009 You Haiku edition. Collectively they say a bit about Anchorage Press readers, maybe something about Alaskans as a whole. You love blueberries. Aluminum foil helps you sleep during summer. Traffic and tourists annoy you. Bears frighten you, or at least earn your prudent respect. Some recent political scandals disappoint, but don’t surprise you. Ted Stevens remains heroic, albeit tarnished, in your eyes. The poems made us wonder if this sample—about 70 writers willing to pare their thoughts to 17 syllables—is as good as any window onto Alaskan thought as one could find. |