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Haiku Now! Contest 2010

The Haiku Foundation, as part of its mission to expand opportunities for writers of English-language haiku, has created the HaikuNow! National Haiku Contests for 2010. The first contest, for poets of any age or experience, opens in early January and runs through the end of March. Prizes will be awarded for English-language haiku in three categories: traditional, contemporary and innovative. Descriptions and examples of such poems may be found in the How to Submit section below. Results will be announced during April, National Poetry Month, on this web site.

Prizes

First-prize winners in each category will receive $100. Honorable mentions will receive $25. All winning poems will be featured on The Haiku Foundation web site and permanently archived.

Judges

We will have five pre-selectors and two final judges: Billy Collins and Jim Kacian.

Billy Collins is the final judge for haiku in the Traditional category. He served as U. S. Poet Laureate from 2001-2003 and has been called “The most popular poet in America,” (New York Times). His book of haiku, She Was Just Seventeen, was published by Modern Haiku Press in 2006. He is Distinguished Professor of English at Lehman College (CUNY). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Collins for additional information.

Jim Kacian is the final judge for haiku in the Contemporary and Innovative categories. He is the founder of The Haiku Foundation and the author of 15 books of haiku. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Kacian for additional information.

Entry Rules

Contest opens: January 6, 2010.

Deadline for submission: In hand by March 31, 2010.

Contest results: Winners will be announced during National Poetry Month, April 2010, on The Haiku Foundation web site www.thehaikufoundation.org.

Who can enter: Anyone (other than Officers, Associates and Board Members of The Haiku Foundation, and their immediate families) may enter.

Fees: None. Free for all contestants.

Basic criteria: All haiku must be in English and must meet the criteria for the appropriate category, as described below. All poems must be the original, unpublished work of the submitter.

How to Submit

Each person can submit no more than one poem per category, for a total of three poems. All entries must be submitted using the online forms available from this page. See the entry forms and example poems for the following categories:

* Traditional Category, judged by Billy Collins
* Contemporary Category, judged by Jim Kacian
* Innovative Category, judged by Jim Kacian

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Masks III

This just in from Chris Gordon:

We are currently accepting submissions for Masks III and excitedly await them.

Masks is a journal of haiku written under the guises of pseudonyms (haigo, in the Japanese haiku tradition), personae, mirages, alter egos, hallucinations, and tricksters.

Like the transformation masks carved by the Kwakiutl people, where, for example, the raven mask is opened and a human face is revealed, surrounded by two serpents, Masks is a journal within a journal (Roadrunner).

Send as many poems as you like, using as many masks as you like.

All work must be accompanied by one or more mask.

For a look at what we've done so far, please take a gander at:

Masks One: http://www.roadrunnerjournal.net/pages93/MASKS_No_One.pdf

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Masks 2: http://www.roadrunnerjournal.net/pages94/MASKS_2.pdf

With issue 2, we established the The Domino Award: http://thedominoaward.wordpress.com/


We'll be accepting submissions until the last day of January and will respond to them as soon as possible.

best of the tiger to you,

Chris Gordon
http://antantantantant.wordpress.com/
http://blackfoxstudios.wordpress.com/
http://www.thehaikufoundation.org/resources/poet-details/?IDclient=74

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Scott Metz
http://lakesandnowwolves.wordpress.com/
http://www.roadrunnerjournal.net/
http://www.thehaikufoundation.org/resources/poet-details/?IDclient=61