3rd Annual
Hexapod Haiku Challenge
Photo by
macomn96.
young
sciomyzid,
shops lakeside ice
for frozen escargot
Despite recent snow and
ice (with more coming to Raleigh this weekend?!) signs
of spring are slowly exposing themselves. The apricot
trees on NCSU’s brickyard are in full bloom, my yard
pulses with a thousand (barely) emergent monocots, and
gardening catalogs beckon us to start planning our
veggies. I’ve also received a fair number of inquiries
about the Hexapod Haiku Challenge – and
even a few entries! I guess it’s time to formally
announce this year’s contest!
To simplify the logistics
I’ve added a new page to our website:
Hexapod
Haiku Challenge. Here you’ll find all the
guidelines and background info, and that will remain the
official HHC announcement. The gist, though, is this:
Anyone
is eligible to submit haiku/senryu/haiga/tanka/other
short poems except for our judges (you know who you
are). We’ll accept up to three – or up
to fifteen if you’re a
Friend of the
Museum (only $10 for kids and students!) –
original
entomological haiku per poet. Your haiku should be
submitted by 11:59pm, March 20th (first day of spring)
either…
- as an email to
ncsuinsects@gmail.com
OR
- as
tweets (be sure to
start each tweet with
@ncsuinsects
#HexapodHaiku)
OR
- as 3×5 cards (one
per haiku; cards will not be returned) mailed to the
following address:
Hexapod Haiku
NCSU Insect Museum
Department of Entomology
North Carolina State University
Box 7613
Raleigh, NC 27695 USA
Haiga can be submitted as
photographs, scans, or via other means as necessary.
For you we offer three
awards with (small) prizes: 1) best in show,
2) runner-up, 3) best entry
from poet under the age of 13. We also have
honorable mention categories that change every year
depending on the submissions we get (most traditional,
funniest, best
IPM-themed
poem, etc.)
We’d love to get more
poems from kids under 13. Last year we received
none.
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