Hot Tomato Haiku Contest Winners 2010
The Fools and I had a great time at the Tomato Art Fest this weekend. We sold a whole bunch’a used books from our booth, as well as hundreds of cold bottles of water. But the highlight of the day was announcing the 2010 Hot Tomato Haiku Contest winners and handing out gift certificates and, yes, an iPad!
With over 500 entries from 140 poets, the judges had a very difficult task this year. But they pushed through and crowned the these winners in the following categories:
Basho’s Beefsteak:
out in the garden
red globes like lights on a vine –
Christmas in July
Tiffany Jyang
Alpharetta, GA
Plum Humorous:
Seed savers rejoice
The heirlooms get all the girls
Monsanto be damned
Sarah Gann
Nashville, TN
Formal Champion:
tomatoes plumping
round stakes, midsummer steaks, round
plumping tomatoes
Temple Cone
Annapolis, MD
Stinky Tomato:
Ms. Tomato was
puréed as the driven snow
until she got juiced.
Peggy Landsman
Pompano Beach, FL
Fried Green Tomato:
King of tomatoes!
Beefsteak, wear your crown of leaves.
Mustard is your gold.
Nell Harris
Nashville, TN
Melissa Duke’s Best In Show:
The livin’, easy –
you’re the plump juicy Romas
in my Caprese.
Dana Delworth
Nashville, TN
Call for Haiku: 2010 Hot Tomato Haiku Contest
Ladies and Gents,
East Nashville’s Tomato Art Fest is almost here (August 14th), which means the 3rd Annual Hot Tomato Haiku Contest starts today! Last year’s category winners scored gift certificates to local eateries, and the Grand Prize winner took home an iPod Touch.
This year’s Grand Prize is even more grand: An iPad! (Yes, really!)
If you love tomatoes, poetry, and/or iPads, visit the contest page and enter by July 31st. And for more regular updates, become a Fan at our Facebook page.
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