Haiku Contest Winners

Many thanks to everyone who entered the Tutt Library First Annual Haiku Contest.  Our panel of 22 judges made multi-tiered blind votes for their favorite haikus, and three prizes have now been awarded.  The winning haikus are:

Third place goes to the Thesis-Writing Senior Collective, for:

Where should I go now?
Your books make me feel at home
2 am, homeless

Second place belongs to Lynne Stahl, for:

more home than my house
forward all mail to carrel
seventy-three, please

And the first place winner of this year's Haiku Contest is David Cummings, whose winning haiku is:

Suddenly, darkness.
No escape.  You are crushed by
Moveable shelving.

Once again, our thanks to all poets and judges for making this contest a rousing success!  We're already looking forward to next year's entries.  And check out the next issue of the Chronicle to see even more of our favorite haiku submissions.

Comments

[Alan Summers]

Congratulations to David Cummings for winning the haiku contest!

Congrats to Lynne Stahl for 2nd place, and the Thesis-Writing Senior Collective for 3rd place!

It's great that the next issue of the Chronicle features more haiku too!

I noticed you didn't stock any of Bill Higginson's ground-breaking books on haiku such as "The Haiku Handbook" and "Haiku Seasons", well worth a purchase of one or both of these longtime classics! ;-)

Also U.S. haiku writer Roberta Beary was a finalist for the Poetry Society of America's 'William Carlos Williams' Award for "The Unworn Necklace" available at Amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/Unworn-Necklace-Roberta-Beary/dp/1903543223/ref=sr_1_1/104-9212552-8069535?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1191963889&sr=1-1
This has a look inside feature at Amazon.com!

The book is also direct from Snapshot Press:
http://www.snapshotpress.co.uk/orderonline_usd.htm

Enjoy!

all my best,

Alan