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The Francine Porad Award for Haikuhosted by the Washington Poets AssociationDeadline: March 15, 2007 The Washington Poets Association (http://www.washingtonpoets.org/) invites your haiku submissions for the fourth annual Francine Porad Award for haiku. The contest was named to honor a leading figure in Northwest haiku, painter and haiku writer Francine Porad. She was a former president of the Haiku Society of America and editor for eight years of Brussels Sprout, an international journal of haiku and art. She published two dozen books of her haiku and related poetry, and passed away in September of 2006 at the age of 77.Entry form and fee: The entry fee is $5 plus $1 per poem (no limit on the number of submissions) . Read the fine print and download the 2007 entry form at http://www.washingtonpoets.org/wpa_contest_info.php. Prizes: Cash prizes totaling $250 will be paid as follows: $125 for first prize, $75 for second prize, $50 for third prize. Winning haiku will also appear in Cascade, the annual journal of the Washington Poets Association and on the WPA Web site. Winning poets will be invited to read their prize-winning poems at a WPA summer event. Adjudication: The 2007 haiku judge is William J. Higginson, who is the author of The Haiku Handbook: How to Write, Share, and Teach Haiku (McGraw-Hill, 1986; Kodansha International, 1989). Booklist calls this book "the standard text on the subject." He has also written Haiku Seasons: Poetry of the Natural World and Haiku World: An International Poetry Almanac (both Kodansha, 1996), and Wind in the Long Grass (Simon & Schuster, 1991), among other books. He is a past president of the Haiku Society of America, and is also editor/publisher of From Here Press books, which has published haiku books by Allen Ginsberg, Elizabeth Searle Lamb, and Ruth Stone. Additional Information: For more information or to have an entry form mailed to you, contact Jed Myers at medjyers@hotmail. com or at 4026 NE 55th St., Suite A, Seattle, WA 98105, USA, or phone 206-526-0972. Click Here for Entry form from the Washington Poets website
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