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APA Heritage Month Haiku Contest

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Guests at Asia Society's APA Heritage Month Kick-Off Party, April 27, 2010. (Suzanna Finley)
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Guests at Asia Society's APA Heritage Month Kick-Off Party, April 27, 2010. (Suzanna Finley)

We have a winner!

Last month was Asian Pacific American Heritage month, and to celebrate, we held our APA Heritage Month Haiku Contest so you can let us—and the rest of the world—know why being Asian American rocks.

After many hilarious, touching, and amazing haiku entries posted on the comments below, on our Facebook wall and submitted to our @AsiaSociety Twitter, we're proud to announce the winner (plus, honorable mentions!) 

First Prize: Eric Mar
Second Prize: Cindy D
Honorable Mentions: tloh and Jessica

Winners, please e-mail us at printern@asiasoc.org so we can contact you about your prizes.

Thanks to everyone for joining in on the fun. And if you would like to share more haikus about why Asian Americans rock, please keep 'em coming.

tloh | 05:15:10 03:17am
sorry for the duplicate posting! for anyone (like me) who didn't know beforehand, pop in a lil HTML to get the parsing right: just throw a

between paragraphs and a
at the end of each line for a carriage return. I'll demonstrate with the third paragraph from the bottom (left out a couple syllables, woops) --

"So how long have you
lived here then?" he asked.
"Since birth." (you moron)

if only we could edit our posts! had fun though, thx for the opportunity to play around.

Stephanie V. (Asia Society) | 05:15:10 10:53pm
Thanks for positing your haikus Tloh! They are excellent. I deleted your non-formatted submission, and thanks also for leaving the HTML tip for other users. You're right, the formatting on the comments are a bit tricky right now, and we hope to fix that soon. Thanks again for participating!
tloh | 05:15:10 03:20am
shoot, that's a "

" between paragraphs and a "
" at the end of each line for a carriage return, e.g. "

" "So how long have you "
" lived here then?" he asked. "
" "Since birth." (you moron) "
" "

" The "

" and "
" won't show up in the actual post.

LT | 05:12:10 08:46pm
Gentle buffalo
In a golden yellow sea;
My rice is ready
Dung Nguyen | 05:12:10 07:44pm
Those wide, bright brown eyes,
as piercing as an eagle's,
spies chocolate prey.
Si Min | 05:12:10 04:29pm
This is a Haiku This line: seven syllables. All is as it is.
Cindy D | 05:12:10 01:07am
Fish sauce aroma
welcomes me when I come home
Please take off your shoes
Irene | 05:11:10 04:01pm
eat eat manang says / budweiser and adobo / ube a la mode
Richard Alpert | 05:11:10 04:01pm
Sun and Jin went down
With the submarine last week
No more role models
Michael Bailey | 05:11:10 03:55pm
Mix fun cool people
with the greatest place on earth;
The best of both worlds


Asians plus US
equals crazy delicious
you know it is true

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