The SPAM Haiku Archive in the Media

To journalists: If you publish a feature on this archive, please notify me by e-mail () and send a clipping to me at the above address. Copyright 1995 by John Nagamichi Cho for the SHAM's haiku. For the others' haiku, all rights reserved by the individual, attributed authors.

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Articles Published Featuring the Archive

• Entertainment Weekly, July 21, 1995, p. 68.
• The Oregonian, August 2, 1995, "Living" section, front page.
• The San Juan Star, "Live from Arecibo: The Spam Haiku archive," September 20, 1995, "Cybertreks," p. 31.
• The Oregonian, October 4, 1995, "Living" section, front page.
• Word,"GIGO" section, SPAM-ku.
• Los Angeles Times, November 9, 1995, "Newsbites," p. H2.
• InformationWeek, November 13, 1995, p. 10.
• Computerworld, December 26, 1995/January 2, 1996, "'Net Stops," p. 27.
• New York Times Online, "Spamming Spam: The Dead-Meat Poets Society," February 15, 1996, in "Cybertimes" section. (This is a PostScript file.) GIF files of the article: page 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. A GIF file of the front page.
• Vancouver Sun, "Hormel Luncheon Haiku," February 17, 1996.
• Chicago Tribune, "17-Syllable Art Places Meaty SPAM in Poetry's Web," March 7, 1996, Metro Chicago section, p. 1, Eric Zorn's column.
• The Independent (London), "Japanese man...likes to write odes to...the joy of Spam," June 6, 1996, p. 3.
• Detroit Free Press, June 10, 1996, Section E.
• The Charlotte Observer, "Spam rhapsodies are the rage," June 11, 1996, Front page.
• The Honolulu Star-Bulletin, "'Spamku' celebrates product's virtues," June 12, 1996.
• Le Monde, "Les délices du SPAM célébrés par les haikus," June 28, 1996, p. XII.
• The Boston Herald, "Hackers find haiku Spam-tastic," July 8, 1996, Front page.
• The Wall Street Journal, "Poetic license on the Internet," July 22, 1996, p. B1.
• Atlanta Journal and Constitution, "Haiku Craze Resurges via Internet," July 24, 1996, p. 4E.
• Chicago Sun-Times, "It Could be Verse as Haiku Writers Wax Poetic on Web," July 25, 1996, p. 29.
• Durham Herald-Sun, July 28, 1996, p. B1.
• Denver Post, "From SPAMku to Lammku," July 29, 1996, p. B-7.
• Mangajin, "Special Edition: 'Spam-ku' on the Net," October 10, 1996, pp. 62-63.
• The Institute, "IEEE Members Laugh it up On-line," October 1996, p. 12.
• Colorado Daily, "Spam Volcano Blows, Gorgeous Sunsets," February 28-March 2, 1997, p. 15.
• Pasadena Star News, "Internet Companion," March 24, 1997, p. A15.
• The Los Angeles Times, "News Bites: Net Spam," June 11, 1997, p. H2.
• The Daily Gazette (Schenectady, NY), "From Spam to verse," June 25, 1997.
• U.S. News and World Report, "Saying it in 17 syllables," June 30, 1997.
• The Australian Magazine, "Tread softly because you tread on my haiku," pp. 28-31, date unknown.
• Internet Week, "Can the Spam? Better think it through," p. 31, March 30, 1998.
• Chicago Reader (and other alternative weeklies), The Straight Dope, "What is actually in Spam luncheon meat?," May 1-7, 1998.
• TWA Ambassador, "Oh tin of pink meat! Who says there's no such thing as American cuisine?", June 1998, pp. 33-35, 61.
• New York Times, "Gracious Concession on Internet 'Spam,'" August 17, 1998, p. D3.
• San Francisco Examiner, October 6, 1998.
• Los Angeles Times, October 7, 1998.
• Boston Phoenix, October 9, 1998, p. 11.
• Des Moines Register, "SPAM's adoring fans turn it into lilting lines before they scarf it," October 12, 1998.
• Orange County Register, "Reflections," October 14, 1998, p. 80.
• Augusta Chronicle, "City Ham," October 14, 1998.
• Huntsville Times, "Small Bites," October 14, 1998.
• Naples Daily News, October 14, 1998.
• Fairfax Journal, October 15, 1998.
• Salisbury Times, "Odes to SPAM," October 15, 1998.
• Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Poets get Their Fill of SPAM in Anthology Devoted to Meat," October 17, 1998, News section, p. 8.
• New York Daily News, October 19, 1998.
• The News & Observer, October 21, 1998.
• M.I.T. Tech Talk, October 21, 1998.
• Detroit News, October 22, 1998.
• Boston Globe, October 23, 1998.
• American Cynic, "Web Site of the Week," October 26, 1998.
• Ft. Worth Star-Telegram, "Food Fax," October 28, 1998.
• Star Tribune (Minneapolis), "Lovely Luncheon Loaf," November 4, 1998, p. 1T.
• Miami Herald, November 5, 1998.
• Arizona Republic, "Pig-Meat Poetry," November 5, 1998, p. 22.
• New York Times, November 12, 1998.
• The Ithaca Times, "15 Minutes," November 12-18, 1998, p. 19.
• The Gazette (Montreal), "City Ham," November 14, 1998, p. W7.
• Chicago Sun-Times, "The rhythms of SPAM: Collection of haikus makes most of meat," December 20, 1998, SHOW section, p. 21.
• Pacific Citizen, January 1999, Online Spam and Virtual Japanese Food.
• Star Tribune (Minneapolis), "SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, Wonderful SPAM," January 16, 1999, p. 1E.
• The Express & Star, February 18, 1999.
• Stanford Magazine, March/April, 1999.
• Kansas City Star, "Food Fetishes and Other Culinary Obsessions," May 12, 1999, p. E1.
• Melrose Free Press, "SPAM-ku Spices Up Ancient Art Form," March 2, 2000, p. 15.
• San Francisco Chronicle, "Weird Fun: Bizarre, but That's why we like it," March 7, 2000.
• Los Angeles Times, "Cutting Edge: Click Here," May 4, 2000, p. C6.
• USA Today, "Hot Sites," May 23, 2000.
• Port Arthur News, "Grimes: Trying his hand at spam haikus," June 8, 2000, p. 5.
• The Rafu Magazine, "The SPAM Chronicles," August 4, 2000, pp. 20-21.
• P.O.W.D., "Poetry Corner," July 2000, p. 18.
• South China Morning Post, "Dividing Lines," August 26, 2000, p. 5.
• Digital Credenza, "Internet Files--Need a Laugh?", September 3, 2000.
• Hanbeat, "SPAM = Love, Korean Style," 2000.
• ABCNews.com, "A Slice of Americana," February 26, 2001.
• Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Haiku Casts Big Net," April 1, 2001, p. 1E.
• Arizona Republic, "Haiku Finds Niche on Web," September 4, 2001.
• Associated Press, "Haiku on the Web/continued ubiquity/plenty of chuckles," Michael Hill, January 9, 2003.
• New York Post, "SPAM I am--Once Scorned, the Canned Meat is Starring on Broadway and on Your Plate," March 16, 2005.
• The Telegraph (Calcutta, India), "Keeping it Spam and Short," February 10, 2007.

In Books and on the Web

• Point Survey.
• Holznagel, R. F., The World Wide Web Top 1000, New Riders, Indianapolis, 560 pp., 1996, ISBN 1-56205-577-1.
• Geoffrey's Geek Guide.
• NetGuide Live.
• Wolff, M., Your Personal Net Guide, Wolff New Media, New York, 734 pp., 1996, ISBN 1-889670-07-3.
• Most Popular Web Sites, Lycos, Indianapolis, 1073 pp., 1997, ISBN 0-78970-1348-9.
• Internet Yellow Pages, New Riders, Indianapolis, 1150 pp., 1997.
• Fenton, E., and D. Pogue, The Weird Wide Web, IDG Books Worldwide, Foster City, 131 pp., 1997, ISBN 0-7645-4004-1.
• Wyman, C., Spam: A Biography, Harvest Books, 134 pp., 1999, ISBN 0-1560-0477-1.
• San Francisco Chronicle Best of the Web, 2000.
• Music Dish, "the mp3 way: spam; spam, sausage, spam, spam, spam, bacon," April 5, 2001.
• Sherry Chandler Blog, "The Potted Meat Museum and Spam-ku," May 6, 2005.
• A Full Belly, "SPAM-ku!", July 21, 2005.
• King Blog, "Spam-ku!" October 12, 2005.
• Minyanville, "Urban Legends: Spam Tastes Like Human Flesh!" August 2, 2009.
• No Idea What I'm Doing: A Daddy Blog, "My Trip to the SPAM Museum," March 30, 2014.

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