March 4, 2013

Mark Allen Editorial
Arika Okrent’s brutally true haiku about tweets won the the 2013 National Grammar Day Tweeted Haiku Contest.



“Soon after, she tweeted an amendment,” Mark Allen writes:

“It became a self-fulfilling haiku,” Okrent tells Allen.

Poynter will host a National Grammar Day chat at 3:30, following a related News University Webinar that starts at 2 p.m. ET. Comma one, comma all.

Via Allen’s Storify, more Tweet Haiku contestants:

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Andrew Beaujon reported on the media for Poynter from 2012 to 2015. He was previously arts editor at TBD.com and managing editor of Washington City…
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