The Golden Triangle Business Improvement District (BID) in Washington DC encourages economic development through a range of initiatives including public art projects. The District stretches from the White House to Dupont Circle. This is the seventh year the BID has run the Golden Haiku poetry contest. More than 1,700 entries were judged by a distinguished… Read More Golden Haiku Contest: Washington DC
Many organisations in Japan conduct haiku competitions and, given the world-wide popularity of the genre, several competitions invite haiku written in the English language. I was fortunate to have two haiku recognised in recent Japanese contests: the Basho-an International English Haiku Competition and the Soka Matsubara International Haiku Competition. The famous Japanese haiku poet, Matsuo… Read More Haiku Competitions in Japan
The new issue of Windfall is now available. Issue 8, published in early 2020, provides a wonderful selection of haiku relevant to the experience of urban and rural life in Australia. Edited by Beverley George, and published by Peter Macrow from Blue Giraffe Press, Windfall accepts submissions in July each year with the print publication… Read More Windfall: Issue 8
Christine Villa has completed Issue 11 of her video journal, Frameless Sky. The current edition runs over 25 minutes and offers a mix of music, visual art and Japanese short-form poetry. In this case, the music is by Kevin MacLeod and the artwork is by Tiffany Shaw-Diaz and Jessica Malone Latham. You can purchase a… Read More Frameless Sky: Issue 11
Since 2016, WA Poets Inc (based in Perth, Western Australia) has conducted the Ros Spencer Poetry Contest. Having run the contest for several years, the organisers produced an anthology in late 2019 containing poems from all four contests to date. Brushstrokes, the Ros Spencer Poetry Contest Anthology 2016-19, presents poems selected by Dennis Haskell and Rose… Read More Ros Spencer Poetry Contest Anthology
As I mentioned in an earlier posting, the New Zealand Poetry Society runs an annual competition with sections for open verse and haiku as well as categories for younger writers under 18 years of age. Each year, winning and selected poems from the competition are published in an anthology. The 2019 anthology is The Perfect… Read More New Zealand Poetry Society: 2019 Anthology
The Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival is the city’s annual springtime event celebrating the Japanese tradition of flower viewing. Each April, Vancouver organises an extensive program of indoor and outdoor community events including concerts, cultural events and The Big Picnic in Queen Elizabeth Park. As part of the Festival, Vancouver runs a Haiku Invitational inviting poets… Read More 2019 Vancouver Haiku Invitational
The final Brush With Poetry for the year will be held on Sunday 24 November 2019. In addition to the usual open mic readings, Laurie McDonald will appear as feature poet for the afternoon. Laurie writes and performs Australian ‘bush’ poetry and other poems capturing his quirky observations from life. Laurie describes most of his… Read More Laurie McDonald at Brush With Poetry
