{
  "id": 12420241,
  "title": "The 2026 Bluebird Banter Haiku Contest: Voting",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/06/the-2026-bluebird-banter-haiku-contest-voting",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-06T16:30:53.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Yahoo Sports",
    "slug": "yahoo-sports",
    "url": "https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/2026-bluebird-banter-haiku-contest-163053325.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The 2026 Bluebird Banter Haiku Contest is currently underway, with voting open to determine the winner and backup poet laureate. A total of 10 haikus were submitted and narrowed down to two polls due to a limit on Feed polls. Each haiku was crafted by a different participant, with themes ranging from baseball action to AI concerns. The winner of the polls will be crowned the official poet laureate, while the second-place haiku will assume backup poet laureate duties in case the winner becomes incapacitated.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}