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THE FAMOUS PEOPLE HAIKU PROJECT: ANOTHER INTRODUCTION By Daniel Nester Almost a year ago, with no haiku or tanka in hand, we had to go to press with a new issue of LPZ. Since then, we have solicited haiku and other poetry from famous and semi-famous people. If these people can do it, we reasoned, then certainly we common writer-folk can. The response was encouraging. As loyal readers of LPZ know, our first contributors were Rick Rockwell, of Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire fame, and, by found-poetry default, linguist Noam Chomsky. And of course, we milked it for all it was worth. We had a bit of a drought last issue, with many mailerdaemon-returned e-mails and false starts. Meteorologist Al Roker wrote back, saying he was too busy. "Sunny Skies, Al," he concludes. Darva Conger, a logical curatorial counterpart to our maiden Rick Rockwell voyage, wrote a very nice letter. "While I appreciate your offer and good intentions, I am moving on with my life," she writes. " I will be immediately compared to Rick Rockwell if I write a haiku," she writes, "and that's the last thing I want or need." All of this, needless to say, took a bit of the wind out of our sails. For this issue of La Petite Zine, however, the Famous People Haiku Project goes into full swing. Mojo Nixon, ever the rule-breaker, even writes a tanka. We were going to have a nonanonymous reality TV haiku, but that person sort of equivocated. Go to the front home page to go to individual famous works, or click below to see the whole, er, portfolio.
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