The Shiki Monthly Kukai

February 2010 Shiki Monthly Kukai Call for Submissions!

Welcome to the February 2010 Shiki Monthly Kukai.

Please take time to join with The Haiku Foundation in celebrating another year of haiku opportunities by entering the first ever HaikuNow! International Haiku Contest 2010.

The closing date is March 31 2010 and the winners will be announced at the end of April, National Poetry Month. This contest is free and open to all poets of any age and experience. Three categories: and prizes range from $100.00 for first place to $25.00 for honorable mentions.

Voting deadline -- Noon, EST, (UTC-5) Saturday, February 20.

Results will be posted no later than the following Friday, February 26.

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 the secrataries 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 season theme. Our kigo subject for February 2010 is Groundhog Day

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

Groundhog Day
I spit out the seeds
from a faraway fruit

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 without seasonal reference.

Our free format theme for February 2010 is Hope.

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

shifted rubble ...
another hand
waving

Geo

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!

George and Robert

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