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Faves

The New Yorker, Talk of the Town, "The Basho of Honk"
by Nick Paumgarten - March 25, 2002

The Los Angeles Times, "Versed in Traffic Control"
by Maggie Farley - May 18, 2002

PBS Life 360 July 2002

CBC Radio's As it Happens with Mary Lou Finlay and Barbara Budd, "Honku - Japanese Poetry to Calm New York's Streets" March 26, 2002

NPR's Talk of the Nation with Lynn Neary, "Road Rage Meets Zen" Carl Kassel, Robert Siegel and NPR voices read their favorite honku! July 16, 2003

Staten Island Advance, "Honk if You Like Haiku"
by Michael Wagner - July 27, 2003

Honku Mythologization

The Sunday New York Times City Section, "Cars Howl on Choked Streets But Lamppost Poets Propose Gentler Paths to Work"
by Tara George - March 17, 2002
New York Daily News, "Hey, New York - Take a Haiku"
by Lenore Skenazy - March 24, 2002
Sweden's Dagens Nyheter, "Tutande Blev Haiku/Honku"
by Magnus Larsson - April 18, 2002
St. Paul, Minnesota Pioneer Press, "Signs New York City is Returning to Normal"
by Deborah Locke - March 28, 2002
Scotland's Sunday Herald, "Pure Honking"
by Aaron Hicklin - April 21, 2002
The London Guardian, "How Poems Change the World"
by Oliver Burkeman - April 11, 2002
St. Paul, Minnesota Pioneer Press, "Honk if you Want to Enrage Neighbors"
by Deborah Locke - May 9, 2002

Television
(Download free Real Player or Windows Media Player to listen online).

CNN "Honk if you love 'honku'" Jeanne Moos gets versed in the intricacies of 'honku'
by the New York man who created the genre - August 4 (2:23)
BikeTV with Clarence Eckerson, Brooklyn Community Access Television March 22, 2002

Radio
(Download free Real Player or Windows Media Player to listen online).

WCPN 90.3 Cleveland Public Radio with April Baer, "Practicing Honku: An Interview with Author Aaron Naparstek" June, 2003
WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show, "Poetry in Motion" June 3, 2003
NPR's Sunday Weekend Edition, "Where Road Rage Meets Zen"
by Wilma Consul - July 14, 2002
CBC Radio's As it Happens with Mary Lou Finlay and Barbara Budd, "Honku Follow Up" July 18, 2003
96X Edmonton, Canada, BJ & Shannon July 2003
NPR's The Next Big Thing, "Honku"
by Dean Olsher - March 2, 2002

Political Projects

New York Daily News "Prospects Up for Walkers in Park Car Ban"
by Elizabeth Hays - January 22, 2003

Park Slope Courier "Prospect Park Car-Free Hours Are Cause For Celebration"
by Gary Buiso - January 27, 2003

Brooklyn Courier, "TA Hollers for Bollards"
by Erik Engquist - February 17, 2003

New York Daily News, "Pushing to Drive Out Car Alarms"
by Pete Donohue - March 13, 2003

Park Slope Courier "Park Advocates: This Is Not a Shortcut"
by Gary Buiso - April 28, 2003

Park Slope Courier, "Yassky: Business 'Yes,' Traffic 'No'"
by Christy Goodman - April 28, 2003

New York Daily News, "Plan for Ban Alarms Pols"
by Michael Saul - June 12, 2003

New York Post, "Pols Weigh Car Alarm Ban"
by Frankie Edozien - June 12, 2003

Park Slope Courier, "Downtown Traffic Study: 'A Big Nothing'" by Gary Buiso - July 7, 2003

New York Daily News, "Ban Car Alarms? They Disrupt Life and Don't Work"
by Aaron Naparstek - July 8, 2003

Brooklyn Heights Press & Cobble Hill News "Community Groups Attack DOT For Not Acting on Traffic Study"
by Raanan Geberer - July 10, 2003

The Allentown Morning Call, "Opposition to Ear-Piercing Car Alarms is Getting Louder" July 20, 2003,
by Tim Blangger

Selected Book Reviews

USA Weekend, "Haiku and You"
by Elizabeth McCall - April 20, 2003

Automobile Magazine, "In Gear"
by Michael Austin

Boulder, Colorado's Daily Camera, "Taking the 'Honku' Road Away From Road Rage"
by Clay Evans - August 13, 2003

Cleveland Jewish News, "The Bard of Clinton Street"
by Douglas J. Guth - July 11, 2003

Long Island Press, "Book Review: Honku"
by Andrew Krivak - July 2003

Chicago Sun Times, "Sweet music to forestall carmageddon: Haiku for the road"
by Henry Kisor - June 1, 2003

North Carolina's Salisbury Post, "Try Your Hand at Haiku"
by Katie Scarvey