29th Minute

Third endless question. Interviewers impressed withtheir knowledge, not yours.

doug hesse, at 2:05 pm EST on January 2, 2007

in Philly

Pinstripe emanates... Where are my comp/atriots?Independence pub.

cheryl, at 2:21 pm EST on January 2, 2007

quint-haiku (and it’s true, too!)

Leaving the inter- view, she walked into a walland laughed about it.

Once the door had closed, neutral witnesses spoke up:"You’ll get the job now.”

I bought her a beer that night and agreed she wasquite memorable.

Next week she’ll tell me if memorable means that she will see campus

or if it just means she’s fodder for poets andfolks who sympathize.

Laurie McMillan, at 2:55 pm EST on January 2, 2007

Composition stars/ ABDs — destination:Margaritaville!

Pat Valdata, at 6:15 pm EST on January 2, 2007

Dumb struck, bad evening: no more interviews cheap teach—sad dreams as adjuncts.

, at 10:45 pm EST on January 2, 2007

There I was minding my own business, deleting mail without reading

when ‘haiku’ fluttered past the spam through the highlights insinuating

itself between me and Harvard, waiting fifteen sleepless hours away.

Sometimes a girl needs to give in to distraction to keep sanity

to cast aside clocks and succumb to melody to hear the rails sigh.

, at 5:30 am EST on January 3, 2007

Thanks Professor Hochman

This was a lot of fun. I’ll have to say that, from my perspective, the best concluding haiku line was Pat Valdata’a “Margaritaville!” Spectacular!

In fact — and they were all terrific — I’m nominating her haiku for “the best of the best.”

Frizbane Manley

P.S. On several occasions I have asked IHE to alter its formatting constraints to enable us to express poetry “more naturally.” They don’t even respond.

P.P.S. It appears that IHE has still not repaired its Comments windows.

FM

, at 10:20 am EST on January 3, 2007