Category Archives: Haiku contest

Attention: Haiku Contest for Students

Dear Teachers and Parents, If you have students/kids in grades 7 through 12 who like poetry, and specifically haiku, start getting them ready to enter a terrific haiku contest with a late March 2016 deadline. Co-sponsored by the Nick Virgilio … Continue reading

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Inspired Writing Is in Everything

After you’ve been a writer for decades, you find that there is inspiration in practically everything. You notice everything. A friend once said to me, “Can’t you do anything without writing about it?” I guess I can’t. Everything is grist … Continue reading

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Attend This Huge Literary Festival!

Followers and Friends: I hope you are enjoying The Daily Haiku which brings you a variety of haiku and senryu voices. (Senryu is haiku written about human nature and its weaknesses, and it is often humorous.) Haiku and senryu originated … Continue reading

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