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Robert Frost Poetry & Haiku
contests accepting submissions
The Robert Frost Poetry and Haiku contests are now accepting submissions. Just as last year, the top prize
in each category is a two-week residency in Key West
and $200. Two haiku may be submitted for each $10 fee,
and everything is accepted online.
Deadline: March 15.
More information:
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Nicholas A. Virgilio
Memorial Haiku Contest
for Grades 7-12
Founded by the Sacred Heart Church in Camden, NJ, and sponsored by the Nick Virgilio Haiku Association in memory of Nicholas A. Virgilio, a charter member of the Haiku Society of America, who died in 1989. The Haiku Society of America cosponsors the contest, provides judges, and publishes the results in Frogpond and on the HSA website.
Deadline: In hand by March 25, 2013. Entries received after this date will not be accepted.
Eligibility: Any student in grades 7 through 12 enrolled in school as of September 2012 may enter.
Regulations: Submit up to three haiku per student. All haiku must be previously unpublished, original work, and not entered in any other contest or submitted elsewhere for publication. Please follow the guidelines carefully. Publication is defined as an appearance in a printed book, magazine, or journal (sold or given away), or in any online journal that presents edited periodic content. The appearance of poems in online discussion lists or personal websites is not considered publication. Judges will be asked to disqualify any haiku that they have seen before.
Submissions: Each haiku must be typed in triplicate on 3˝ x 5˝ cards. The haiku must appear on the front of each card; your name, address, age, grade level, and school (please include the school address) must appear on the back of (only) one of the cards for each haiku. Please do not send self-addressed stamped envelope with your entries. All winners will be notified. Winning haiku and commentaries will appear in Frogpond. Do not use staples for any purpose. Failure to follow this format will make it impossible to judge an entry and may result in the disqualification of a submission without notification.
Entry fee: None.
Submit entries to: Tony Virgilio, Nick Virgilio Haiku Association, 1092 Niagara Rd, Camden, NJ 08104-2859 USA.
Adjudication: The names of the judge(s), selected by the HSA, will be announced after the contest.
Awards: Six haiku will be selected and each awarded $50.
The winning haiku and list of winners will be published in Frogpond and on the HSA website. The high school of each student winner will receive a one-year subscription to Frogpond.
Rights: All rights revert to the authors after publication.
Correspondence: Please keep a copy of your haiku; entries cannot be returned.
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Mildred Kanterman
Memorial Merit Book Awards
for Excellence in Published
Haiku, Translation, and Criticism
This award is made possible by Leroy Kanterman,
cofounder of the Haiku Society of America,
in memory of his wife Mildred Kanterman.
Deadline:
In hand by March 31, 2013 (please do not submit or nominate books before January 1, 2013).
Eligibility:
The award is open to the public. Books must have been published in 2012 and must clearly contain a printed 2012 copyright. A member, author, or publisher may submit or nominate more than one title. At least 50 percent of the book must be haiku, senryu, or haibun, or prose about these subjects (books mostly of tanka, for example, are not eligible). Books published by HSA officers are eligible for this award. Books published by the national HSA organization, however, are not eligible.
Submissions:
The HSA encourages members, authors, and publishers to proactively submit or nominate eligible books, not only so the judge(s) will consider them, but also so that the HSA can add these books to the permanent HSA Archives in the American Haiku Archives at the California State Library. Please send two copies of each book, noting them to be Mildred Kanterman Memorial Merit Book Award entries. Authors or publishers should contact the first vice president before the deadline to ascertain that books have been received. In addition, authors and publishers are encouraged to communicate with each other so that duplicate entries are not submitted.
Entry fee:
None; however, donations to offset costs are welcome. If including a donation, please make checks/money orders payable to "Haiku Society of America."
Submit entries to:
Michael Dylan Welch, HSA First Vice President, Kanterman Award, 22230 NE 28th Place, Sammamish, WA 98074-6408 USA. If you have questions, email welchm@aol.com.
Adjudication:
The names of the judge(s) will be announced after the awards are decided.
Awards:
$500 for first place, $100 for second place and $50 for third. The first place award money is made possible by the generosity of Leroy Kanterman in memory of his wife Mildred. The list of winners will be published in Frogpond and on the HSA website.
Rights:Books submitted become the property of the HSA, and one copy will be deposited in the permanent HSA Archives in the American Haiku Archives at the California State Library.
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Quarterly Meetings
In 2013, HSA Quarterly Meetings will be held as follows:
March 30-31 New York, New York
June 21-23 Seattle, Washington
September 27-29 Evanston, Illinois
December 13-15 New Orleans, Louisiana
Details of locations, times, and programs will appear in Ripples, the HSA Bulletin, the HSA website, and on the society's Facebook page, as will announcements and details of HSA regional meetings.
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HSA Quarterly Meeting
New York City
West Beth Community Room
55 West Bethune
Saturday, March 30
2:30 - 5:30 p.m.
For more information:
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Haiku North America & HSA
to share booth at
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
Haiku North America will share a booth at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books with the Haiku Society of America. The festival will be on the USC campus in Los Angeles, April 20th-21st.
We are looking for book donations as a fund-raiser for the conference. Haiku North America is a non-profit organization, so your book donation would also be tax deductible.
If you have a copy of your own haiku book or chapbook, or any duplicate books in your haiku library that you would like to donate, the books can be shipped to Gregory Longenecker, 1560 Scenic Drive, Pasadena CA 91103.
The books can also be dropped off at the March Southern California Haiku Study Group Meeting or the March & April Haiku San Diego Meetings.
We would like to receive all book donations by April 15th. Unsold books will be available in the book fair at Haiku North America.
For local poets or poets who may be visiting Southern California in April, we are looking for people who might be willing to staff the booth for an hour or so. We are also looking for haiku poets who are willing to do readings at our booth. Please contact Debbie Kolodji at dkolodji@aol.com if you would like to help man the booth or do a short reading at the booth. |
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Haiku San Diego's
ants on the sidewalk
Haiku San Diego hosted a multimedia haiku performance, 'ants on the sidewalk,' at its February monthly meeting, Sunday, February 10, 2013. Deborah P Kolodji, Gregory Longenecker, and Naia, all members of the Haiku North America 2013 steering committee, read urban-themed haiku and senryu, accompanied to Jazz music and a slide show of urban-themed images.
Haiku North America 2013 will be held August 14-18 onboard the Queen Mary, in Long Beach. It is a bi-annual conference that will feature over 25 different presentations, panels, discussions, performances, and readings on different facets of haiku. It will also feature a bookstore, a haiku contest, a participant-created haiku anthology, an art show and haiga exhibition, haiku-writing exercises, and a banquet with a performance and keynote speech by renowned butoh dancer, Don McLeod. For more information, see the website at www.haikunorthamerica.com.
'ants on the sidewalk' was first performed at Haiku Pacific Rim, in Pacific Grove, California. It will be the 26th Podcast of Haiku Chronicles, a poetry podcast hosted by Donna Beaver and Alan Pizzarelli at www.haikuchronicles.com.
Haiku San Diego was founded by Naia and Billie Dee and meets on the 2nd Sunday of most months,
from 12:30 to 2:30 at Open Door Books,
4761 Cass Street, San Diego, CA.
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Bruce Ross is soliciting haiku for a North American section of a contemporary world haiku anthology. Please send 3 of your best haiku written between 2000 and 2013. Include in the body of your email your name, city and state or province, your 3 haiku, and an English translation, if written in another language. If published, include the name of the journal. Send to: dr_bruce_ross@hotmail.com (two underscores) with a subject line "A Vast Sky" or mail to: Bruce Ross, PMB 127, 499 Broadway, Bangor, ME 04401 USA. Those chosen will be notified. Deadline: August 01, 2013
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Ignatius Fay
HSA Bulletin Editor
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If you have not had a chance to check out the ".haiku" column at the HSA webpage, please do so! Gene Myers shares tools and tips available to haiku poets. Click here for the archives. | |
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Membership in the Haiku Society of America includes a year's subscription to the society's journal, Frogpond (three issues yearly). In addition, members receive the newsletter, Ripples (three issues yearly), the annual information sheet, and an annual address/email list of HSA members.
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