John Barlow of Snapshot Press has announced the winners in this year’s Haiku Calendar Competition. Each of the 12 winning poems will be featured in the 2009 Haiku Calendar from Snapshot. In addition, 40 other “runner-up” poems will be included in the calendar, which contains the work of 33 poets from around the world. The Haiku Calendar 2009 can be ordered online or by mail order.
As usual, several of our Honored Guest poets were selected for this year’s calendar. f/k/a‘s Winners include: John Stevenson (January) and Carolyn Hall (February). Runner-up poems were penned by Roberta Beary, David Giacalone, Carolyn Hall (two more), and Peggy Willis Lyles.
The f/k/a Gangs tip our hats to all the winners, but especially to Ellen Compton, Jack Berry and Chad Lee Robinson, who will each have 4 poems in the 2009 calendar.
You can find three of the Winning poems here.