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To celebrate Car Free Day, The Village Project is seeking haiku submissions that relate to the problems with cars or ways to go “car-lite.”

The Village Project, which promotes transportation options that make the use of a car optional, will feature the haikus on its Village Commons blog.

Submissions are due by Sept. 22, and the project asks that participants register on the blog so that they can be notified if their haiku wins.

The categories for the Haiku contest are best overall, most humorous, most persuasive, best rant, most inspirational and best use of the senses.

Prizes include a bicycle helmet, a restaurant gift certificate and a bicycle from the Recyclery.

Judges for the event include Jay Bryan, Carrboro Poet Laureate; Ruby Sinreich, OrangePolitics blog founder; Kirk Ross, newspaper reporter and columnist; and Jean Earnhardt, a community activist.

This Haiku Contest is meant to promote International Car Free Day, an annual “celebration of cities and public life, free from cars.”
International Car Free Day takes place every Sept. 22.

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