Touchstone Poem Awards
The Touchstone Awards for Individual Poems are bestowed annually on haiku and senryu that represent a noteworthy addition to English-language haiku in the estimation of a distinguished panel of haiku poets, editors and scholars. The Awards are open to any English-language haiku or senryu published during calendar-year 2011. The authors of award-recipient poems will receive an engraved stone emblematic of his or her contribution to the foundations of English-language haiku. For current and past winners, please see the Touchstone Archive.
What Poems Are Eligible?
Any individual who had at least one haiku or senryu published during the award year may nominate two haiku or senryu, one of which may be their own. For the purposes of this award, publication is constituted by, but not limited to, first appearance in a juried public venue such as a book, journal, online site or contest. The Awards Committee reserves the right to determine whether a poem meets this criterion.
How to Submit
The deadline for submission is December 31, 2011.
Each poet may nominate no more than two poems, only one of which may be the author’s own work. Nominated poems must be submitted with our entry form:
Entry Form: Touchstone Awards for Individual Poems
The Panel for 2011
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Fay Aoyagi has been writing haiku in English since 1995, and has published two books, “Chrysanthemum Love” and “In Borrowed Shoes” (both from Blue Willow Press). She translates one contemporary haiku per day and introduces it in her blog (http://fayaoyagi.wordpress.com) and tweets a haiku per day. She is one of three new assisting editors of The Heron’s Nest. She lives in San Francisco and supports her haiku life as a free-lance interpreter. |
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Diane Wakoski was born in Whittier, California, and studied at the University of California, Berkeley, where she participated in Thom Gunn’s poetry workshops. Her early writings were considered part of the deep image movement. She also cites William Carlos Williams and Wallace Stevens as influences. Her later work is more personal and conversational in the Williams mode. Wakoski is married to Robert Turney. She has been the Poet In Residence at Michigan State and will retire in 2012. |
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David Cobb made his home 50 miles from London, after working abroad (Unesco programme director, Hamburg; college teacher, then Asst Professor of English, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok). Returned to his homeland to manage a writing unit based within a leading educational publishing company. Founded the British Haiku Society (1990), was its president (1997-2002), and has fostered outreach to the wider European haiku fraternity/sorority. Has selected for several major anthologies, e.g., Haiku (British Museum Press, 2002). Details of his own collections can be found at www.davidcobb.co.uk. |
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Dee Evetts is co-founder (with David Cobb) of the British Haiku Society and a former secretary of the Haiku Society of America. In 1992 he started the Spring Street Haiku Group in New York, and in 1994 curated the Haiku on 42nd Street installation. He is co-editor with Jim Kacian of the ongoing series A New Resonance, and is one of the editors for the annual Red Moon Anthology. |
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John Martone Heard Italian in his infancy. Grew up reading Dickinson in Whitman’s hometown (Huntington New York), and found Rexroth, Blyth, and Laozi in an underground bookstore. Came to Eigner years later, and Samperi; corresponded with Corman close to twenty years. During this time, produced tel-let booklets by nearly 100 poets. Bob Lax. Vietnamese, Chinese, and botany. Failure at Japanese. Publishes most of his work in small, handbuilt editions. Beautiful daughters. Pen-names include ordinary fool and worst of sinners. Poetry is life. |
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Paul Miller (paul m.) is an internationally awarded and anthologized poet and essayist. He is an executive committee member of the Haiku Society of America (2004 – ), Haiku North America (2004 -), and book review editor for Modern Haiku. He holds a B.A. in Cognitive Psychology and a M.A. in English. |
