Haiku Competitions

Call for Submissions:

Trash Panda

Guidelines:

Trash Panda publishes the best of English language haiku/senryu and other short form poetry of 17 syllables or less that uniquely expresses the reality of life in the Anthropocene. Poems should not shy away from nature as it exists today. Plastic bags may flutter from cherry trees, and herons may stand in filthy water.

Poems may be new or previously published. Publication rights are restored to the author upon release of publication, but Trash Panda reserves the right to republish in any future anthologies.

Spring/Summer Issue:

Submissions must be received between May 1st and May 15th.

Autumn/Winter Issue:

Submissions must be received between October 1st – 15th.

Anything received outside of the submission windows

will be ignored.

Include in the body of the email:

1. Your name, as you wish it to appear for publication.

2. Your city and country of residence.

3. Up to 5 of your best poems in the body of the email.

No attachments will be read.

Send to: trashpandahaiku@protonmail.com

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April is Poetry Month

Post a short poem on Twitter (or Instagram) and use #NPRPoetry

Your poem may be chosen for commentary!

Find out more here

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The Monthly Tricycle Haiku Challenge

2 Different Season Words at the beginning of each month

Each month moderator, Clark Strand, choses three poems to be published with commentary in Tricycle Magazine online. Each quarter, one of these poems is also chosen to appear in the print magazine alongside an extended commentary.

For more information, and to submit, go here.

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Vancouver Sakura Haiku Invitational

March 1 - June 1, 2021

Enter your cherry blossom haiku.

For more information go here.

Yoyogi Park, Tokyo

Taken at Fushimi Inari Shrine, Kyoto

Comments

Season Word Blues

What's the Point of Season Words? Can You Write Haiku Without Them? After almost a year of writing (mostly bad) haiku, I began to understand the point of season words. There are conflicting rules about season words (also known as kigo ), and those rules can be confusing. Some haiku poets pay no attention to season words. I find them useful, providing a kind of shortcut, not just as a reference to nature, but for setting a tone, emotion, and social commonality. I invite you to play with them. As my teacher, Clark Strand , likes to say, "Haiku is anything you can get away with in seventeen syllables." What I like about season words : they force me to think, to consider the world in ways I may usually avoid. A season word provides a jumping off place. It's especially fun to use season words when writing in a group, to see how others use the word--a process that's often inspiring. What I don't like about season words : They can be a trap. Many have been overused...

Trash Panda Haiku Journal I'm delighted that one of my haiku has been accepted for the first edition of " Trash Panda, " a biannual print journal for the poetic expression of life in the Anthropocene. This is the home for English haiku and short form poetry of 17 syllables or less that doesn't shy away from the reality of nature in the present. Please consider subscribing. September 2019, NYC, Climate March

My Haiku Journey

I was first exposed to haiku as a child in elementary school. Perhaps you were too? I wrote a poem about a chestnut ... that's all I remember. Over the years, now and then, I'd try my hand at writing haiku, but when I visited Japan at cherry blossom season--studying Japanese and calligraphy--I was drawn into living, breathing haiku. Upon returning to the states I sought a teacher, and I found a wonderful workshop at Upaya Zen Center , in Santa Fe, taught by Natalie Goldberg and haiku master, Clark Strand . (Clark doesn't call himself a master, but I believe he is one.) I began to study haiku in earnest, studying with Clark, reading haiku masters like Bashō and many others, composing haiku in a Ku-Kai group. And, of course, writing hundreds of haiku ... mostly bad and a few good. Haiku is a journey, a way of viewing the world, noticing the juxtaposition of the human condition and nature. Most poems contain a season word, kigo , and (although there's debate, due t...

When Haiku Rains - Suzanne Tyrpak

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