# @sjmagmedia on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CcbEJnpLJCu
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/177347-sjmagmedia-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/e6d048d2c4.jpg
- **Posted:** 2022-04-16T19:00:16.000+00:00

## Caption

In the thick of the 2020 Covid shutdown, a Camden writers’ group needed to figure out a way to survive the pandemic when it hit upon an idea that struck a poetic nerve. They launched a free weekly publishing contest on Instagram.

At a time when people were told to stay apart, “Haiku in Action” was a stab at connecting people through the power of mindfulness and the written word. It was sponsored by the Nick Virgilio Haiku Association (NVHA), named after a groundbreaking Camden poet credited with helping to popularize the Japanese style of poetry in the United States. To enter, all anyone had to do was compose a poem loosely following the rules of haiku. The first week’s writing prompt was: “How has the lockdown changed your summer?”

& boy did it snowball from there. Check out the rest of the story in our Link in Bio!
📷 @dmhphotographer 
#haiku #camden #southjersey #poetry #poetrycontent

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| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SJ Magazine | @Justsaysj | https://gondola.cc/Justsaysj | Magazine |
| Elyse Notarianni | @ElyseNotarianni | https://gondola.cc/ElyseNotarianni | Social Media Manager |

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haiku, camden, poetry, southjersey, poetrycontent

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