Haiku Festival

  • Haiku Fest Judges

  • We gratefully acknowledge the following judges who gave their time, talent and treasures to support Haiku Festival 2010:

    Marilyn Allen
    poet and healthcare administrator
    -since 2004

    Dr. Wayne Allen Jones
    poet, therapist
    -since 2008

    Katriél
    author of Night Fall, VP
    Chicago Writers’ Collective
    -since 2006

    Renée K. Moore
    poet, educator
    Cave Canem Alumna
    -since 2004

    Valerie Wallace, poet,
    founder:
    DeepDishPoemAMonth.com
    Administrative Manager:
    University of Chicago
    Philosophy Dept.
    -since 2004

    Michael Covenant Watson
    poet, host of Wordslingers WLUW, 88.7 FM
    -since 2006

--Korbin Carnegie, 1st Prize winner

  • Haiku Fest 2010 Winners

  • Haiku Fest awarded certificates to all participating student poets. Thanks to over 1700 poets, parents and teachers for making Haiku Fest successful. For more information on the event, click here.
  • We proudly announce the following commendations:
    • First Prize: $100
    • Dancing on the roof
      Being watched through the window
      Do not tell Lily
    • Korbin Carnegie, Age 13, Grade 8
      University of Chicago Lab School
    • Second Prize: $50
    • Remember Papa?
      In the morning we ate prunes.
      I mourn over him.
    • Jason Morris, Age 12, Grade 7
      Morris Home School, Chicago
    • Third Prize: $25
    • Chasing squirrels up trees
      digging up bones in the yard
      cats scurry away
    • Dinah Hayes, Age 10, Grade 4
      St. Benedict Elementary, Chicago
    • Gwendolyn Brooks Award: $25
    • Day in and day out,
      We are all stuck in repeat,
      Waiting our escape.
    • Alexa Hernandez, Age 13, Grade 8
      Richard Yates Elementary, Chicago
    • Founders Award: $20
    • acoustic love notes
      feelings written in a song
      someone's broken heart
    • Lauren O'Neil, Age 14, Grade 8
      St. Damian, Oak Forest, IL
    • Honorable Mention:
    • Horses by the beach
      Riding through the crystal waves
      Searching for their homes
    • Kara Jackson, Age 13, Grade 7
      Mount Carmel Academy, Chicago
    • Honorable Mention:
    • Purples rule the sky
      Yellow and oranges mourn
      Sunsets make me dream!
    • Gracie Kubelka, Age 11, Grade 5
      St. Daniel the Prophet, Chicago
    • Honorable Mention:
    • I grow in your grass
      People say I am a weed
      Blow me and seeds fly
    • Angela Whiting, Age 11, Grade 6
      St. Ethelreda, Chicago
    • Honorable Mention:
    • Green clothes and red hair
      Annoying little person
      Enjoys lots of gold!
    • Michael Molloy, Age 8, Grade 3
      St. Benedict Elementary, Chicago
    • Honorable Mention:
    • Rubble everywhere
      Bodies lying in the street
      There's nothing to drink
    • Bart Coyle, Age 14, Grade 8
      Mount Carmel Academy, Chicago
    • Honorable Mention:
    • Painted eyes, red lips
      I put on my face today
      And saw a stranger
    • Erin M. Monforti, Age 12, Grade 6
      St. Cornelius, Chicago
    • Honorable Mention:
    • Chill winds blow softly
      Creeping under my doorway
      Like a cat hunting
    • Avery Broome, Age 13, Grade 8
      Sacred Heart School, Chicago
    • Teacher of the Year:
    • Ms. Joann Serafin
      St. Daniel the Prophet, Chicago
    • Honorable Mention for Teacher of the Year:
    • Ms. Diane Husar
      John L. Marsh Elementary, Chicago
    • Honorable Mention for Teacher of the Year:
    • Mr. Frasser Coffeen
      St. Agnes of Bohemia, Chicago
    • School of the Year:
    • St. Daniel the Prophet, Chicago
      Ms. Joann Serafin, Ms. Laski
    • Honorable Mention for School of the Year:
    • St. Benedict Elementary, Chicago
      Ms. Amy McCue, Ms. Amy Miller, Ms. Desiree Gentile,
      Ms. Janet Olson, Ms. Melissa Geisler,
      Ms. Shannon Brusca, Ms. Yvonne Grabe
    • Honorable Mention for School of the Year:
    • St. Christina, Chicago
      Ms. Joan Baley

  • Haiku Fest Deadline: Saturday, 24 March 2012 @ MIDNIGHT

  • Haiku Festival Awards will be issued on:
    Saturday, 28 April 2012
    10:00 AM
    Harold Washington Library
    400 South State Street
    Chicago, Illinois

    FREE Admission

  • Special Guest for our 8th Annual Awards Program is Valerie Wallace, author of Dictators' Guide to Good Housekeeping

  • Enter Online

  • Download Entry Form

  • Contact Information

  • eMail:  Info@HaikuFest.com
  • Mail:    Haiku Fest
                   Post Office Box 450
                   Chicago, IL 60690
  • Phone:  312-253-7453