Haiku Festival

  • Haiku Fest Judges

  • We gratefully acknowledge the following judges who gave their time, talent and treasures to support Haiku Festival 2006:

    Carolyn Aguila
    poet, author of
    Flirting with Rhyme

    Marilyn Allen
    poet and healthcare administrator

    Marlon Billups
    poet, President
    Chicago Writers’ Collective

    Katriél
    author of Night Fall, VP
    Chicago Writers’ Collective

    Renée K. Moore
    poet, educator
    Cave Canem Alumna

    Valerie Martt Wallace, poet,
    Administrative Director:
    Urban Life Center

    Michael Covenant Watson
    poet, host of Wordslingers WLUW, 88.7 FM

--Sok Bunny Cheng, 1st Prize winner

  • Haiku Fest 2006 Winners

  • Haiku Fest awarded certificates to all participating student poets. Thanks to all 332 poets, parents and teachers for making Haiku Fest successful. For more information on the event, click here.
  • We proudly announce the following commendations:
    • Elgie Harris, Sr. Memorial 1st Prize Award: $100
    • "The Canary"
      Bright as the sunlight,
      It sat singing with beauty
      Waiting to be free.
    • Sok Bunny Cheng, Age 14, Grade 8
      Dewitt Clinton School
    • Dr. Boris Thomas 2nd Prize Award: $50
    • "Geese"
      geese look elegant.
      they fly in wonderful forms.
      but they are noisy.
    • Linda Quizhpi, Age 11, Grade 5
      St. Benedict School
    • Dr. James Gandre 3rd Prize Award: $25
    • "Bring New Hope"
      Been through hope and pain
      Tried to forget and stay sane
      Now new hope again
    • Cecil Harris, Age 13, Grade 7
      Wendell Green School
    • Founders Award: $20
    • "In a Tree"
      I sit in a tree.
      I am looking for a bee.
      A bird throws something
    • Shonte Nalls, Age 12, Grade 6
      Chicago International Charter School
      Prairie Campus
    • Honorable Mention
    • [Untitled]
      Grandpa lost his shoe
      He looked in the living room
      But it was long gone
    • Dion Randall, Age 10, Grade 4
      Dixon School
    • Honorable Mention
    • "How would Hitler Feel"
      How would Hitler feel
      If he worked so hard until
      He died in his grave?
    • Brandon Segura, Age 14, Grade 8
      St. Benedict
    • Honorable Mention:
    • [Untitled]
      My family’s gone
      they have chosen me to live
      but my heart is dead
    • Leela Sims, Age 14, Grade 8
      St. Benedict
    • Honorable Mention:
    • "I’ll Die For Soccer"
      Soccer! If there is
      no soccer in Heaven I
      am not going there.
    • Alejandro Perez, Age 13, Grade 7
      CICS Prairie
    • Honorable Mention:
    • "Memory"
      Where are you, sister?
      I can see you in the cloud.
      Please come back to me.
    • Kierra Collins, Age 14, Grade 8
      CICS Prairie
    • Honorable Mention:
    • "Missing out"
      I am very sad
      people don’t see my goodness
      so they lose a friend
    • Utopia Stepney, Age 12, Grade 6
      CICS Prairie

  • Haiku Fest Deadline: Saturday 13 March 2010 @ MIDNIGHT

  • Haiku Festival Awards will be issued on:
    Saturday, 24 April, 2010
    12:00 noon
    Carter G. Woodson
    Regional Library
    9525 South Halsted
    Chicago, Illinois
  • Poet Angela Jackson is our Special Guest for the 2010 Awards Program

  • FREE Admission


  • Contact Information

  • eMail:  Info@HaikuFest.com
  • Mail:    Haiku Fest
                   Post Office Box 450
                   Chicago, IL 60690
  • Phone:  312-458-9898