procrastinating?
put your daydreams to good use
send us a haiku
In celebration of National Poetry Month and National Library Week, Tutt Library is happy to be seeking your original, library-themed haiku for the fifth time. Please submit no more than a dozen entries to the reference desk (or email them to tuttref@coloradocollege.edu, or comment on this post) by April 30th. Winners will receive fabulous prizes and their haiku will be creatively immortalized.
The fine print: If you use more or less than seventeen syllables, if you aren’t a CC student or employee, if you don’t talk about libraries or your experience in them, or if you submit pseudonymously, you are unlikely to win any prizes (but we’d still like to read your haiku).
Use your imagination! Embrace your poetic nature! Tell all your friends!
always wanted to
tell libraries how you feel?
Five-seven-five it!
Want to know more before you take the plunge? Well, this is a library -- we can help!
The online Oxford English Dictionary defines haiku here and senryu here. (The astute or anxious reader may now be wondering whether senryu are also allowed in our contest. Absolutely!)
Tutt Library has books of haiku by Basho, Shiki, Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser, and Jack Kerouac - and our own Curator of Special Collections, Jessy Randall, has published several haiku, including this one. You can find thousands of examples of and scholarly articles on haiku in Granger's, JSTOR, MLA Bibliography, Humanities International Complete, and more, via our English Subject Guide.
We hope all this haikuphilic information serves as an inspiration for you to get started writing your own, and sharing them with us.
Is it open to alumni?
Posted by: Linda Cummings | March 22, 2012 at 04:59 PM
Linda, we'd love to read alumni haiku, and would be happy to feature them in our usual ways. However, they aren't currently eligible for prizes... gotta give the new kids a shot! :)
Posted by: Marianne Aldrich | March 27, 2012 at 10:50 AM
Hi, it's a little unfortunate that your haiku contest is not opened to all! Here's only one of my haiku, just for fun!
moonless summer night -
after some roasted coffee
reading crime fiction
Posted by: Minh-Triêt PHAM | April 06, 2012 at 08:31 AM
What are the prizes?
Posted by: A Facebook User | April 21, 2012 at 12:49 AM