Do You Haiku?
Freshkills Park is the 30-year phased transformation of New York City’s notorious Fresh Kills Landfill into a sprawling system of parks three times the size of Central Park. In honor of National Poetry Month, organizers are holding a Haiku (a type of poem written in three lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables) contest to articulate people’s hopes for and observations of the project.
According to the Freshkills Park blog, winners are eligible for prizes and publication. Entries should be e-mailed, along with your name and age, to FreshkillsPark@parks.nyc.gov by Friday, April 24th at 5:00 p.m.
Our contributions:
Literal wasteland
Someone finally woke up
And picked up the mess
Just an old landfill
Restored with a green promise
And made land fulfilled
An island of trash
Turned verdant green, bit by bit.
Soccer, anyone?
April 15th, 2009 at 10:58 am
Hello Steven,
Thank you for your submission to the Freshkills Park Haiku contest. We appreciate you taking the time to think about the future park. Winners will be announced at the end of the month.
If you haven’t had a chance to visit the site, we encourage you to sign-up for a tour. We offer free bus tours two Saturdays per month. In addition to learning about former landfill operations, the history of the land, and future park plans, you will travel to the top of two capped and closed garbage mounds for views unlike anywhere else in the city.
To sign up, visit our website, www.nyc.gov/parks/freshkillspark, click on the Tours & Programs tab, and the Tours sub-menu.
Best,
The Freshkills Park Team
www.nyc.gov/parks/freshkillspark
http://freshkillspark.wordpress.com
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