Here Are The Winners Of The 2020 Haiku Contest

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4.8 • 642 Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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It’s the last day of 2020, which means we’re revealing the winners of our 2020 Haiku Contest. Plus, hear an interview from our friends at Reset, WBEZ’s daily talk show. In a multimedia project titled “The River Speaks,” a student at the University of Illinois at Chicago gives a unique personality to each of the six branches of the Chicago River.

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0:00.0	Hey there, it's Curiosity Audio Producer Stephen Jackson.
0:04.1	And on today's show, we reveal the finalists in our 2020 haiku contest and the inspiration behind the winning poems.
0:10.9	My window looks out over an alley and I see a brick wall on the other side and that's where I've been for the last, what, nine months.
0:17.5	And later, the Chicago River speaks.
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