OPEN! Nominate Poems for the 2024 Touchstone Award

The year is hurrying by, and as summer dwindles, we are ready to begin accepting your nominations for the 2024 Touchstone Award for Individual Poems. It is time to start reflecting on your favorite English-language haiku published in 2024.

The Touchstone is an award, not a contest. It is our goal to recognize the best haiku published each calendar year. We wish to present our panelists with as broad and top-flight a selection of poems as possible.

As in past years, we have asked journal editors to nominate the best of what they have published this year and contest organizers to send all winning and honorable mention poems. 

We invite individuals in the community to participate using this FORM (please do not post in the comments). Send us two (2) of your favorites, only one (1) of which can be your work (or you can send two [2] that belong to other poets). Nominated poems must have been published in a paper, journal, contest, or book in 2024. Haiku and senryu that are self-published or appear on personal blogs are ineligible.

Please submit your nominations no later than the end of the year. Please also supply complete citations: journal name, volume, and number, or complete contest information (no acronyms, please).

Previous award recipients are displayed in the Touchstone Archive.

You can find more eligibility information and how to submit nominations on the Touchstone Award for Individual Poems home page. 

Notes:

Please familiarize yourselves with the panelists; any poems nominated for these folks are ineligible and removed from the list.

All duplicate nominations are culled, so having a poem of your own nominated more than once is redundant.

All nominations are tracked by our database. Please refrain from sending in multiple nomination forms. Any nominations beyond those permitted will be deleted and only the first will be counted.

We look forward to seeing your nominations soon!

Robin Smith

Coordinator, Touchstone Award for Individual Poems