Tres dope! Subtitle: “Two guys and a girl/Crafting Haiku at events/Earning good money.”
“Our mission is to write haiku for everyone on the whole entire planet,” says Lisa Markuson, the one woman in the poetry-writing trio The Haiku Guys.
This might seem a bit ambitious, but given how frequently Markuson and her cofounders, Erick Szentmiklosy and Daniel Zaltsman, are hired to write poems at events, this goal might not be too far-fetched. Over the last year, they’ve been booked for fundraising galas, wine shop openings, indie film nights, weddings, and countless other events. Big companies absolutely love them: Their corporate client list includes Bloomberg, Google, Barnes & Noble, Steve Madden, and J. P. Morgan. And they’re a fixture at music festivals like Sweetgreen and dance parties like Daybreaker.
On any given weekend—and most weeknights—one member of the triad can be found dressed to the nines, sitting behind a typewriter in front of a sign that says “Free Haiku,” and entertaining guests by writing them poems carefully tailored to their mood or interests. Guests can request poems about anything their heart desires—marshmallows, snow, a billy goat—and they’ll produce a 5-7-5-syllable verse on a pretty little notecard that would look nice on a fridge or pinned up by a desk.
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