Photo by Suzy Miller
The
deadline for haiku submissions for the 13th
Annual ukiaHaiku Festival is March 21, 2015. Nine categories are
reserved for poets from Mendocino, Lake, Sonoma, and
Humboldt counties with divisions by age and topic, and with
two categories in Spanish. There
is no fee to enter the contest, including for the Jane
Reichhold International Prize, which is open to poets from
around the world and offers cash prizes. For more
information please visit www.ukiahaiku.org. Entry forms are
available on the website as well as at the Grace Hudson
Museum in Ukiah or at branches of the Mendocino County
Library. The winning haiku will be shared with the
community, and their creators honored, at the ukiaHaiku
Festival on Sunday afternoon, April 26, at the SPACE theater
in Ukiah.
Haiku are
brief three line poems originating in Japan. They can be written in
the traditional 5-7-5 pattern of syllables or in
contemporary form with varying syllable count, as these
previous winners illustrate:
a strange
clicking sound
from high
in the mossy oak
dark
raven eyes watch
--Stephen
Elsemore, Ukiah
inside
an empty
room
moonlight
--Armand
Brint, Ukiah
Haiku by
other festival winners can be accessed on the festival
website along with information on crafting haiku, including
a presentation by Jane Reichhold, an internationally
recognized haiku expert living in Mendocino County.
Ukiah
Valley residents were inspired to hold a festival
celebrating haiku because Ukiah and haiku are palindromes.
It also provides an opportunity to celebrate the area’s
natural beauty, a common theme in haiku. Anyone who has stopped
to notice some wonder of the natural world or wants to share
a reflective moment can write a haiku.
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