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A Haiku contest is a literary competition where participants submit haiku poems, a traditional Japanese form of poetry. Haiku are known for their simplicity, nature themes, and specific structure.

Many of us probably have memories of writing short, clever haikus in school, trying to craft the best verse possible within the confines of the five syllable, seven syllable, five syllable structure.

The competition has a special focus on haiku poetry, a form that is easy to do badly and hard to do well. I speak from experience, as a published poet who has written far more haiku than I’ve ...

The format may be simple, but that does not mean haikus are easy to write. A haiku is a form of poetry originating in Japan that has three lines and 17 syllables, with five syllables in the first ...

Haiku are three-line poems with five syllables in the first and third lines, and seven syllables in the second line. In their study of nearly 4,000 haiku, recently published in the journal PLOS ...