” Spamku – Spam Haiku Archive – SPAM, that mysterious food product, has spawned a post-modern, cross-cultural literary form: SPAM-ku http://pemtropics.mit.edu/~jcho/spam/”
There, I have quoted from haiku.com, a page that obviously is in need of a update since more then half of all the links are bad. Like the one above, it saddens me to say. But there is still information to be found about Spam-ku. Mr. John Cho launched a website as early as 1995. The one above that is.
SPAM-ku
The Internet has also brought the noise as well as the content, unleashing a
torrent of humor, satire and zaniness all labeled haiku.The biggest brand name is SPAM-ku (pemtropics.mit.edu/=jcho/spam). MIT
researcher John Cho launched the site in praise of the processed-pork meat
in 1995; to date, it has spawned more than 17,000 verses by more than 40
contributors, as well as a greatest-hits book, “SPAM-ku:
Tranquil Reflections on Luncheon Loaf” (Harperperennial paperback, $7.95).
The above quote was taken from a text about Haiku named “Haiku casts big Net; An old and clever form of Japanese poetry is making a global splash“. Don’t read it. It’s to long. There was once a a historical spam museum and archive. The remainings of that “museum” which from the beginning was created to preserve all spam’s for future net archaeologists can be found at this location.
