day 22 - butwait - careful selection
Once a month, the folks at haikuworld.org put together a kukai, in which writers of English-language haiku write and submit haiku that follow specific prompts. Then, if you’ve submitted a haiku to either prompt (there are usually two), you are permitted to vote on the haiku other folks have written.
I submit my own haiku so that I may have the privilege of voting for other folks’. The voting deadline this month is tomorrow, and there were over 250 haiku to read and think about. I have now made my selections.
Some of my thinking about haiku has been shaped by the editors at Simply Haiku, this post by David Giacalone, and the writings of Robert Hass on the subject. I hope to be trying to write haiku for many years to come. It’s harder than it looks.
Last 5 posts by butwait
- day 29 - butwait - concrete - February 29th, 2008
- days 27 & 28 - butwait - blood and blog - February 28th, 2008
- day 26 - butwait - haiku - February 26th, 2008
- day 25 - butwait - split pea soup - February 25th, 2008
- day 24 - butwait - sledding! - February 24th, 2008