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November 7, 2000 - Writer Tom Nord of Louisville, Ky., has a Web site in which he invites submissions of haiku tributes to each of the U.S. presidents. Haiku is the minimalist Japanese form of poetry that traditionally describes nature. So far he has 37 presidents covered. We hear him read from his collection.
Suddenly Haiku
The simple poem, both Buddhist and populist, bears its renown well
By Joanna Weiss
The Boston Globe
Dec. 26, 2000
Haiku success came even more quickly to Thomas Nord, 34, a feature writer for the Louisville Courier-Journal, who always harbored ambitions of starting a 'zine to amuse himself and his friends. So one day in early fall, he asked himself, "What is the dumbest thing I can come up with for a Web site?"