Dear Haiku Maven, I caught a haiku celebrity, whom I consider a friend, cheating in public. He two-timed one of his old but still winsome haiku by sending it to a new contest, open only to unpublished work, where it was shortlisted. I know his haiku was previously published because it is in a book … [Read more...]

Haiku Maven’s Top 10 Out  & In List for 2014            OUT                                                                               IN   haiku meetings                                                            haiku … [Read more...]

Dear Haiku Maven, I recently discovered that a small check I had received for winning second place in a haiku contest has bounced, incurring a larger fee from my account. The organization is legitimate, although apparently suffering from a severe lack of funding. This has never happened to me … [Read more...]

Dear Haiku Maven, A friend who has written several haiku chapbooks helped me with one of my haiku at my request. He completely changed the last line and made it much stronger. I thanked him. I entered that same haiku, as revised by him, in a big haiku contest. It won a prize, my first, and I was … [Read more...]

Dear Haiku Maven, A poet I know took first prize in an international haiku contest in the English-haiku category. The submission guidelines stated that the contest haiku “must be original and not previously published.” I know that the winning haiku was published several years ago in a journal since … [Read more...]