This year, CAD is especially exciting because the Academy of American Poets recently announced that Muriel Baldwin, a dairy cow from Pukwana, South Dakota, would receive the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for creating a new form of poetry – the “haikow,” a three-line, seventeen syllable poem like a haiku, only written by a cow – and for publishing a best-selling book of “haikow” called Emootive Language.
Below on the left: Muriel Baldwin reads "haikow" from her book Emootive Language at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion, South Dakota.
Moo moo moo moo moo
Moo moo moo moo moo moo moo
Moo moo moo moo moo
As you pass people on the street tomorrow, join with the members of the ALA and greet passers-by with "Lang may yer lum reek!"
Happy Cow Appreciation Day to you and yours!