The Shiki Monthly Kukai

May 2008 Shiki Monthly Kukai Call for Submissions!

We offer our hearty Congratulations to Roberta Beary whose book entitled The Unworn Necklace, published by Snapshot Press, has been chosen as one of two finalists for the William Carlos Williams Award presented by the Poetry Society of America.

Please find below the topics for the May 2008 edition.

Voting deadline -- Noon, EST, Saturday, May 24th.

Results will be posted no later than the following Friday, May 30th.

Participants may submit an entry for one or both sections of the kukai. Please do NOT enter any haiku previously published, work-shopped or shared. The haiku entries remain anonymous until results are posted.

Participants may vote in both sections of the kukai so long as they have submitted an entry to at least one section of the kukai.

ADDRESS FOR ALL KUKAI CORRESPONDENCE:
st-kukai@haikuworld.org

PLEASE -- Do not send your entries or votes to Robert or Gary personally -- or to any mailing lists. Entries or votes appearing on lists are disqualified.

IMPORTANT NOTE:

USE THE EXACT SUBJECT "KIGO ENTRY" OR "FREE FORMAT ENTRY" IN THE SUBJECT LINE OF EACH SUBMISSION.

PLEASE SEND ENTRIES IN PLAIN TEXT FORMAT.

PLEASE SEND EACH ENTRY SEPARATELY.

SIGNATURE REMINDER: The name you use to sign your haiku will be the name listed when the vote tallies are revealed and in the archives.

Please sign with the name you wish to be known by. We have several poets with the same first name. Please help us avoid confusion by not using a common first name as your only signature.

The KIGO SECTION requires haiku using the designated seasonal reference. Our kigo subject for May is LILY, including plants named as lily though not classified as a member of the Liliacea family. The word 'Lily' or the plants name must be present in all accepted haiku.

Voters will be encouraged to consider if the kigo is used seasonally.

To: st-kukai@haikuworld.org
Subject: Kigo Entry

swamp fire
the snail's journey
into a lily

robert

The FREE FORMAT SECTION requires a haiku on a particular object, theme, or setting that may occur at any time within a given year. This is a free format haiku, in that the writer can compose and include a season word or submit a poem with no seasonal reference.

The theme for the May free format is any MUSICAL INSTRUMENT.

To: st-kukai@haikuworld.org
Subject: Free Format Entry

cats in love
the G string snaps
on her violin

robert

If this is your first time, please feel free to browse the archives and see how the competition works.

http://www.haikuworld.org/kukai/archives.html

If you have any questions, write to us at st-kukai@haikuworld.org

We, as kukai secretaries, reserve the right to withdraw any submission when deemed necessary.

Thank you!

Robert

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